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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 Wood Buffalo
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 66,850 58,440 3,440 890 3,935 35 50 55 0
Single responses 65,530 57,520 3,335 840 3,720 25 50 45 0
English 53,050 51,610 145 395 875 0 0 15 0
French 1,790 910 465 390 20 0 5 0 0
Non-official languages 10,690 4,995 2,725 50 2,820 25 40 30 5
Aboriginal languages 860 360 145 5 345 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 520 245 35 5 235 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 515 235 35 0 230 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 510 240 35 0 230 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 5 0 0 0 5 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 5 5 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 325 110 110 0 100 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 320 110 110 0 100 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 5 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 5 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 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,140 530 360 10 230 5 0 5 0
Italian 55 40 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 115 45 25 0 40 0 0 0 0
Romanian 85 40 35 5 10 0 0 0 0
Spanish 890 405 290 5 170 10 5 5 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 425 245 80 0 95 0 0 5 0
Dutch 80 60 10 0 10 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 195 125 20 0 45 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 130 45 50 0 35 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 480 235 65 0 160 5 5 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 5 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Croatian 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 30 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 135 65 15 0 50 0 0 0 0
Russian 95 45 10 0 40 0 5 0 0
Serbian 55 25 10 0 15 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 5 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 50 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 50 25 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 15 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 20 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 20 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,595 770 410 20 370 5 10 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 615 310 160 0 140 0 5 0 0
Oromo 40 20 5 0 20 0 0 0 0
Somali 575 290 155 0 120 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages 960 455 245 25 230 5 5 5 5
Amharic 145 75 45 5 20 0 0 0 0
Arabic 760 355 185 15 195 5 5 5 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 40 20 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,845 1,340 860 10 615 0 20 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 2,655 1,260 810 5 555 0 20 0 0
Bengali 200 95 65 0 40 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 855 405 320 0 120 0 15 0 0
Hindi 335 140 95 0 100 0 5 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 40 10 5 0 20 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 295 145 65 0 85 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 15 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Urdu 840 435 235 5 165 0 0 0 0
Nepali 20 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 175 70 50 5 55 0 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 40 25 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 130 45 45 0 40 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 345 135 100 0 110 0 0 0 0
Kannada 10 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 60 45 0 45 0 0 0 0
Tamil 145 60 40 0 45 5 0 0 0
Telugu 45 15 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 95 40 35 0 25 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 675 340 195 0 130 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 660 335 200 0 130 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 95 45 30 0 15 0 5 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 160 70 55 0 35 5 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 210 110 0 75 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 35 15 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 30 15 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 35 20 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,550 685 350 5 500 0 5 5 0
Bisayan languages 65 25 15 0 25 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 25 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 10 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,400 620 320 0 450 0 0 0 0
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 20 5 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 340 155 60 0 125 0 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 45 20 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 180 85 35 0 55 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) 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 60 25 10 0 20 0 0 5 0
Swahili 30 15 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 80 40 25 0 15 0 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 25 10 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 30 10 5 45 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 65 10 20 0 30 0 0 0 0
Creoles 30 25 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 5 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. 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,320 920 105 55 215 10 0 10 0
English and French 210 140 20 45 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 1,045 740 85 5 205 0 0 10 0
French and non-official language 45 20 0 5 5 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 20 15 0 0 5 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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