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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 Portage la PrairieFootnote 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 12,415 11,770 115 165 345 0 5 5 0
Single responses 12,270 11,675 120 155 310 0 5 5 0
English 11,025 10,855 10 90 70 0 0 0 0
French 280 190 15 70 0 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 965 630 85 0 235 0 10 5 0
Aboriginal languages 155 75 5 0 75 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 145 70 5 0 70 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 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 5 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 135 65 0 0 65 0 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dakota 10 5 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 0 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 30 25 5 0 5 0 0 5 0
Italian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 20 15 0 0 5 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 360 270 10 0 75 0 0 0 0
Dutch 35 25 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 310 225 15 0 65 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 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 185 130 5 0 45 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 25 5 0 15 0 5 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 115 90 0 0 25 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0 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 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 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 20 10 5 0 5 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 20 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 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 45 25 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 30 20 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 0 5 0 0 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) 5 5 0 0 0 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 10 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0 0 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 20 10 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 20 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 5 10 5 0 0 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 5 0 0 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. 5 5 5 0 0 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 20 15 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 15 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 90 45 35 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 40 35 0 10 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 5 0 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 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 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. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 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. 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 140 95 0 10 35 0 0 0 0
English and French 30 20 0 10 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 105 65 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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

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