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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 Whitehorse
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 25,790 23,315 800 630 990 5 10 45 0
Single responses 25,450 23,075 785 600 945 5 10 30 0
English 21,755 21,100 40 330 270 0 0 15 0
French 1,185 605 305 255 5 0 10 0 0
Non-official languages 2,510 1,375 435 10 670 0 5 15 0
Aboriginal languages 195 115 5 0 80 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 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 5 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 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 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 135 70 5 0 55 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 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 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 20 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 5 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) 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 45 25 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 45 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 5 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 5 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 25 20 0 0 10 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 185 80 55 0 50 0 5 0 0
Italian 30 15 0 0 10 0 0 5 0
Portuguese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 10 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 140 60 55 0 30 0 0 0 0
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 700 390 90 5 210 0 0 10 0
Dutch 100 65 5 0 25 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 545 290 80 5 170 0 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 25 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 5 5 0 5 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 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 210 120 25 0 60 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 30 15 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 20 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Russian 55 25 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 40 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 65 40 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 30 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 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 30 15 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 25 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 155 80 30 0 40 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 135 75 25 0 35 0 0 5 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 90 45 20 0 20 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 20 20 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 15 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 10 10 0 5 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 45 25 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 10 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 255 175 35 0 45 0 5 0 0
Chinese languages 255 175 35 0 40 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 90 60 15 0 10 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 20 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 110 80 10 0 20 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 15 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 35 20 0 10 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 65 35 20 0 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 480 230 145 0 105 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 65 20 30 0 15 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 20 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 355 185 90 0 75 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 15 5 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 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 5 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 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 20 5 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 340 240 15 35 50 0 0 10 0
English and French 110 80 5 30 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 205 140 10 5 45 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0

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

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