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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 SaguenayFootnote 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 156,585 152,035 3,385 590 460 30 75 10 0
Single responses 156,080 151,705 3,265 565 435 25 75 10 0
English 1,225 660 300 250 5 0 5 0 0
French 153,845 150,560 2,915 125 190 0 45 0 0
Non-official languages 1,005 490 50 185 235 20 20 5 0
Aboriginal languages 90 35 0 35 20 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 85 35 0 30 20 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 45 25 0 15 5 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 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 30 5 0 15 15 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 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 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. 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 325 135 10 85 90 5 5 0 0
Italian 40 15 5 5 15 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 40 15 0 10 15 0 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 240 100 5 60 60 5 5 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 55 30 0 5 15 5 0 0 0
Dutch 10 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 45 20 5 5 15 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 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 75 30 15 15 10 5 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 5 0 5 5 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0 5 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 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 15 0 10 0 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 15 0 5 0 5 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 150 80 10 20 35 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 5 5 5 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 120 60 10 15 35 5 5 5 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 120 65 5 15 30 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 40 30 0 10 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 40 25 5 5 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) 35 25 0 10 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 55 20 5 5 15 5 0 0 0
Chinese languages 55 20 5 5 15 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 5 0 0 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 10 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. 45 20 5 5 5 5 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 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 20 15 0 5 5 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 5 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 20 10 0 5 5 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 5 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) 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 5 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 80 55 0 5 15 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 40 30 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 5 5 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 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 5 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. 20 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 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 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 505 330 115 25 20 5 5 0 0
English and French 375 235 110 20 0 5 0 0 0
English and non-official language 25 15 0 0 5 0 0 5 0
French and non-official language 100 70 5 0 20 0 5 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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