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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Medicine Hat
Detailed mother tongue (232) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue 118,295 113,110 80 3,340 1,765
Single responses 117,100 112,085 75 3,195 1,755
English 97,130 95,065 5 2,020 30
French 1,210 250 40 920 0
Non-official languages 18,765 16,760 30 255 1,720
Aboriginal languages 50 50 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 35 35 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 5 0 0 0
Cree languages 25 25 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 1,170 970 0 50 150
Italian 95 85 0 5 0
Portuguese 50 40 0 5 5
Romanian 45 30 0 5 5
Spanish 985 810 0 30 140
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 12,065 10,885 5 65 1,105
Dutch 910 890 0 15 0
Flemish 20 20 0 5 0
Frisian 20 25 0 0 0
German 10,915 9,770 5 35 1,105
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 125 120 0 0 0
Danish 70 65 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 40 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Afrikaans 70 60 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 865 830 0 15 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 95 95 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 80 75 0 0 0
Czech 40 35 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 160 155 0 5 0
Russian 105 95 0 5 0
Serbian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Slovak 45 45 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 250 245 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 45 45 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 20 25 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 190 185 0 0 5
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 165 160 0 0 5
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 965 840 5 35 85
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 415 355 5 5 50
Oromo 235 200 0 0 30
Somali 185 155 5 5 20
Semitic languages 540 485 5 20 30
Amharic 95 90 0 0 0
Arabic 415 365 0 25 30
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 450 405 0 10 40
Indo-Aryan languages 390 355 0 10 30
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 165 150 0 0 20
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 150 135 0 0 10
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 45 40 0 0 5
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 145 140 0 5 0
Korean 100 95 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 745 560 0 5 175
Chinese languages 730 550 0 0 175
Cantonese 105 90 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 110 95 0 0 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 505 360 0 5 140
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 5
Tai languages 165 65 0 5 100
Lao 40 35 0 0 0
Thai 130 30 0 0 95
Austro-Asiatic languages 205 180 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 125 110 0 5 10
Vietnamese 75 70 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,045 1,035 0 5 10
Bisayan languages 70 70 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 25 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 915 900 0 0 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 195 130 15 45 10
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 105 60 15 30 5
Lingala 5 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 20 15 0 0 0
Swahili 35 10 5 15 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 40 30 5 10 5
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 60 0 15 5
African languages, n.i.e. 245 240 0 0 5
Creoles 30 20 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,190 1,030 10 145 10
English and French 155 50 0 105 0
English and non-official language 935 915 0 15 10
French and non-official language 95 65 5 20 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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