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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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Sex (3)

Detailed language spoken most often at home (232)

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 Squamish^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	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	17,390	15,590	625	380	750	5	10	35	0
Single responses	17,115	15,415	605	355	700	0	10	30	0
English	14,065	13,635	20	205	200	0	0	10	0
French	480	255	80	145	0	5	0	5	0
Non-official languages	2,565	1,525	505	10	500	0	10	15	0
Aboriginal languages	20	15	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	5	5	0	0	0	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	0	5	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	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	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	5	5	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Halkomelem	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lillooet	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Okanagan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Squamish	5	5	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	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gitksan	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nisga'a	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian	5	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	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	245	130	35	0	80	0	0	5	0
Italian	75	45	5	0	30	0	0	0	0
Portuguese	40	20	5	0	20	0	0	0	0
Romanian	10	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Spanish	110	60	20	0	30	0	0	0	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	425	250	30	5	130	0	0	10	0
Dutch	50	25	10	0	15	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	285	175	20	0	90	0	0	5	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	75	35	5	0	25	0	0	0	0
Danish	30	20	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	15	15	0	5	5	0	0	0	0
Swedish	25	0	5	0	15	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	15	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	170	85	30	5	55	0	0	5	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	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech	45	20	15	0	15	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	45	30	0	0	20	0	0	0	0
Russian	25	15	10	0	5	0	0	0	0
Serbian	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	20	5	5	0	10	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	15	10	0	0	5	0	0	0	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	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	55	45	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	45	35	0	0	5	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	10	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	10	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	5	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	1,185	750	300	5	120	0	10	5	0
Indo-Aryan languages	1,170	745	295	0	115	0	5	5	0
Bengali	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	45	20	15	0	5	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)	1,115	720	275	0	110	0	5	5	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	10	5	0	0	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)	15	10	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	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	110	55	25	0	25	0	0	5	0
Korean	25	20	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	80	50	5	0	20	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages	80	50	10	0	20	0	0	0	0
Cantonese	40	20	5	0	10	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	20	10	0	0	5	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	10	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	5	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	10	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	205	95	60	0	45	0	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	10	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	170	75	55	0	40	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	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	10	0	5	0	5	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	5	0	0	5	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	5	5	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	5	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	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	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	280	175	20	25	45	0	5	10	0
English and French	45	30	0	15	0	0	0	0	0
English and non-official language	200	135	20	0	40	0	0	5	0
French and non-official language	30	10	5	5	10	0	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	10	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

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

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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