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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 TerraceFootnote 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 15,400 14,330 270 185 600 0 5 15 0
Single responses 15,200 14,185 255 175 565 0 5 15 0
English 13,445 13,175 10 95 150 0 0 10 0
French 320 185 55 75 5 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 1,435 820 185 5 410 0 5 5 0
Aboriginal languages 100 60 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 5 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 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 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 5 0 0 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 5 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 5 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 80 50 5 0 30 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 25 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 40 25 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 5 0 0 0 5 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 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. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 400 220 55 5 125 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 25 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 310 175 40 5 95 0 0 5 0
Romanian 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Spanish 40 20 10 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 395 255 30 0 105 0 0 0 0
Dutch 80 60 0 0 20 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 250 175 10 0 65 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 30 20 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 5 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 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 80 60 0 0 15 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 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0 5 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 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 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 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 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 15 5 5 0 5 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 35 20 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0 5 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 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 240 130 65 0 45 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 235 130 60 0 45 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 230 130 60 0 40 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 0 5 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) 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 5 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 40 15 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 40 10 10 0 10 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 15 0 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 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. 25 5 10 0 5 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 0 0 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 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 80 25 10 5 45 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 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) 60 20 10 0 35 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 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. 5 5 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 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. 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 200 145 15 5 35 0 0 0 0
English and French 35 30 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 155 115 10 0 30 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 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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