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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) 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 first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in GuelphFootnote 1
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 2 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 3
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 140,410 136,815 1,775 395 1,420 1,975 1.4
Single responses 136,920 133,475 1,695 325 1,420 1,860 1.4
English 124,395 123,225 1,175 0 0 1,175 0.9
French 545 35 505 0 0 505 92.7
Non-official languages 11,985 10,215 15 325 1,420 185 1.5
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 5 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 1,680 1,425 5 80 165 45 2.7
Italian 785 670 0 10 100 5 0.6
Portuguese 120 100 0 5 15 5 4.2
Romanian 150 105 0 25 15 15 10.0
Spanish 635 555 0 40 40 20 3.1
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 260 220 5 25 5 15 5.8
Dutch 65 60 0 5 0 0 0.0
Flemish 10 5 0 5 0 5 50.0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
German 160 135 0 15 10 5 3.1
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 1,555 1,380 0 60 115 30 1.9
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 55 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Croatian 65 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Czech 40 45 0 0 0 5 12.5
Macedonian 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Polish 695 620 5 20 55 10 1.4
Russian 175 150 0 10 10 5 2.9
Serbian 360 305 0 20 35 10 2.8
Serbo-Croatian 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 70 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Greek 65 55 0 5 5 0 0.0
Armenian 35 20 0 10 5 5 14.3
Albanian 40 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 520 470 0 5 40 5 1.0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 510 465 0 5 40 0 0.0
Turkic languages 305 265 0 10 35 5 1.6
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Turkish 70 60 0 0 5 5 7.1
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 235 200 0 5 25 0 0.0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 420 370 0 15 40 5 1.2
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 35 25 0 0 10 0 0.0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Somali 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Semitic languages 390 340 0 15 30 5 1.3
Amharic 75 70 0 0 10 0 0.0
Arabic 255 220 0 10 25 5 2.0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Maltese 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 2,700 2,315 0 50 335 30 1.1
Indo-Aryan languages 2,005 1,720 0 35 250 20 1.0
Bengali 135 120 0 5 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 315 265 0 5 45 0 0.0
Hindi 150 135 0 5 5 0 0.0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 990 805 0 15 170 10 1.0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 55 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 325 295 0 10 25 5 1.5
Nepali 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Iranian languages 680 575 0 10 90 5 0.7
Kurdish 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 110 100 0 0 10 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 555 465 0 10 80 5 0.9
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 235 220 0 0 15 0 0.0
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 40 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tamil 170 155 0 5 10 0 0.0
Telugu 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 35 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Korean 135 115 0 5 15 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,995 1,630 0 35 325 20 1.0
Chinese languages 1,990 1,625 0 40 325 25 1.3
Cantonese 500 365 0 5 130 5 1.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Mandarin 500 435 0 15 55 5 1.0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 955 795 0 20 135 10 1.0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai languages 115 95 0 5 20 0 0.0
Lao 90 75 0 0 15 5 5.6
Thai 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,265 990 0 15 260 10 0.8
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 45 0 0 20 0 0.0
Vietnamese 1,195 940 0 10 245 10 0.8
Malayo-Polynesian languages 495 480 0 0 10 5 1.0
Bisayan languages 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampango 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 430 415 0 5 5 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 45 30 0 10 0 10 22.2
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 30 20 0 10 0 10 33.3
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swahili 25 10 0 5 5 5 20.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Non-verbal languages 45 35 0 0 10 5 11.1
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 3,485 3,335 80 70 0 115 3.3
English and French 140 30 60 55 0 85 60.7
English and non-official language 3,295 3,285 5 0 0 10 0.3
French and non-official language 10 10 5 0 0 5 50.0
English, French and non-official language 35 15 10 10 0 15 42.9

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 3

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011037.

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