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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations
Mother Tongue - Detailed Aboriginal Languages (79), Single and Multiple Language Responses (3), Age Groups (13A), Sex (3) and Area of Residence (6) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 Census
About this variable: Mother tongue - Detailed Aboriginal languages (79)
Definition
Mother tongue
Part A - Short definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual on May 10, 2011.
Values
- Total - Detailed Aboriginal languages Footnote 1
- English
- French
- Aboriginal languages
- Algonquian languages
- Algonquin
- Atikamekw
- Blackfoot
- Cree languages
- Cree, n.o.s.
- Swampy Cree
- Plains Cree
- Woods Cree
- Cree, n.i.e.
- Malecite
- Mi'kmaq
- Innu/Montagnais
- Naskapi
- Ojibway
- Oji-Cree
- Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
- Michif
- Athapaskan languages
- Carrier
- Wetsuweten
- Chilcotin
- Dene
- Tlicho (Dogrib)
- Gwich'in
- North Slavey (Hare)
- South Slavey
- Slavey, n.o.s.
- Sarcee
- Beaver
- Sekani
- Kaska (Nahani)
- Tahltan
- Northern Tutchone
- Southern Tutchone
- Tutchone, n.o.s.
- Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
- Haida
- Iroquoian languages
- Mohawk
- Cayuga
- Oneida
- Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
- Kutenai
- Salish languages
- Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)
- Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
- Halkomelem
- Lillooet
- Okanagan
- Squamish
- Straits
- Salish languages, n.i.e.
- Siouan languages
- Dakota
- Stoney
- Siouan languages, n.i.e.
- Tlingit
- Tsimshian languages
- Gitksan
- Nisga'a
- Tsimshian
- Wakashan languages
- Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)
- Haisla
- Heiltsuk
- Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)
- Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
- Inuit languages
- Inuktitut
- Inuinnaqtun
- Inuvialuktun
- Inuit languages, n.i.e.
- Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages Footnote 79
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.
- Footnote 79
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This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.
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