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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Other Languages Spoken Regularly at Home (9) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , detailed language spoken most often at home , other languages spoken regularly at home and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Cape Breton
Detailed mother tongue (232) Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Total - Other language spoken regularly at home None English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed mother tongue 100,105 96,295 1,635 625 1,525 5 5 15 0
Single responses 99,735 96,050 1,615 600 1,460 0 0 15 0
English 94,530 93,575 70 410 465 0 5 10 0
French 925 640 95 185 10 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 4,280 1,835 1,450 5 980 5 0 5 0
Aboriginal languages 2,865 990 1,205 0 670 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 2,860 990 1,205 0 665 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 2,840 975 1,205 0 665 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 125 75 15 0 35 0 0 0 0
Italian 75 50 5 5 20 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 15 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 155 100 15 0 45 0 0 0 0
Dutch 50 30 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 80 50 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 15 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 55 35 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 55 30 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 145 100 20 0 30 0 0 0 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 70 40 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Russian 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 50 40 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 60 25 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 40 30 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 320 175 80 0 60 0 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 320 180 80 0 60 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 315 170 80 0 60 0 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 150 95 25 0 25 0 5 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 125 75 20 0 25 0 5 0 0
Bengali 20 5 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 65 45 15 0 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 25 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 30 20 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 220 130 60 0 30 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 220 130 60 0 30 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 175 105 50 0 25 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 10 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 15 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 30 10 5 5 10 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 10 5 0 10 5 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 365 250 20 25 70 5 0 0 0
English and French 130 100 5 25 5 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 220 145 10 0 65 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011041.

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