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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 Sault Ste. MarieFootnote 1
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 78,665 72,855 1,350 1,610 2,760 0 5 70 0
Single responses 77,875 72,280 1,335 1,520 2,665 0 0 65 0
English 68,000 66,490 35 760 690 0 0 25 0
French 2,780 1,650 370 745 5 0 0 5 0
Non-official languages 7,095 4,140 930 20 1,970 5 5 35 0
Aboriginal languages 125 65 5 0 45 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 110 60 5 0 45 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 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 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 90 55 5 0 35 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 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. 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 4,055 2,275 570 5 1,175 5 0 15 0
Italian 3,670 2,110 465 5 1,075 0 0 15 0
Portuguese 155 75 40 0 40 0 0 5 0
Romanian 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Spanish 205 75 70 0 55 0 0 0 0
Catalan 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 720 495 40 0 180 0 0 5 0
Dutch 105 80 0 0 25 0 0 5 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 535 365 35 0 135 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 35 5 0 20 0 0 0 0
Danish 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 25 10 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 775 480 85 5 200 0 0 5 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 135 75 15 0 50 0 0 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 320 190 45 0 80 5 0 0 0
Russian 25 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 30 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 25 15 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 200 145 15 5 30 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 60 45 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Latvian 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 40 30 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 35 15 5 0 15 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 780 500 80 5 200 0 0 5 0
Estonian 85 60 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Finnish 635 395 70 0 160 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 65 45 5 0 15 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 0 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 55 25 10 0 20 0 0 0 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 55 20 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 50 20 10 0 25 0 0 0 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 170 75 55 5 40 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 155 65 50 0 35 0 0 0 0
Bengali 40 10 20 0 10 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 20 20 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 40 15 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 10 0 0 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 15 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 5 0 0 0 5 0 0
Tamil 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 40 25 0 5 10 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 160 70 45 0 40 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 160 70 45 0 40 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 25 5 5 0 10 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 20 5 5 0 5 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. 110 55 35 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 15 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 30 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 10 5 0 5 0 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. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 5 0 0 0 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 790 575 15 95 100 0 0 5 0
English and French 320 225 5 90 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 440 325 5 0 100 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 25 20 5 5 0 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.

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

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