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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, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 Saanich, DM
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 108,835 97,845 30 9,390 1,570
Single responses 107,230 96,600 25 9,035 1,565
English 86,590 79,795 5 6,755 30
French 1,355 125 15 1,215 5
Non-official languages 19,285 16,680 5 1,070 1,530
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 5 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 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 2,145 1,865 0 215 70
Italian 465 405 0 55 10
Portuguese 695 615 0 35 35
Romanian 105 80 0 30 0
Spanish 875 760 0 90 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,430 2,160 0 265 5
Dutch 645 575 0 70 5
Flemish 10 5 0 5 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0
German 1,435 1,270 0 165 5
Yiddish 10 15 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 275 255 0 20 0
Danish 140 130 0 10 0
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 75 75 0 0 0
Swedish 50 40 0 5 0
Afrikaans 40 35 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 35 20 0 10 0
Gaelic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Welsh 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,420 1,265 0 115 45
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 5 0
Croatian 245 230 0 5 5
Czech 90 85 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 340 300 0 30 5
Russian 285 240 0 30 15
Serbian 75 60 0 15 0
Serbo-Croatian 30 25 0 0 5
Slovak 40 30 0 5 5
Slovenian 40 35 0 5 0
Ukrainian 225 205 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 35 25 0 5 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0 0
Greek 130 115 0 10 5
Armenian 20 10 0 10 0
Albanian 50 45 0 0 5
Georgian 10 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 360 335 5 25 0
Estonian 15 10 0 0 0
Finnish 105 95 0 10 0
Hungarian 245 230 5 15 0
Turkic languages 65 55 0 10 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 60 50 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 485 355 0 95 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 30 0 5 0
Oromo 15 10 0 5 0
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages 445 330 0 85 30
Amharic 30 30 0 5 5
Arabic 340 240 0 75 30
Hebrew 40 30 0 5 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,315 2,845 5 110 360
Indo-Aryan languages 3,010 2,585 0 75 350
Bengali 75 70 0 5 0
Gujarati 55 50 0 0 5
Hindi 170 155 0 5 10
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 15 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 2,555 2,165 0 55 330
Sindhi 20 25 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 20 0 0 0
Urdu 85 80 0 0 5
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 300 260 0 35 10
Kurdish 0 5 0 5 0
Pashto 15 15 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 280 240 0 25 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Dravidian languages 95 95 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 40 45 0 0 0
Telugu 25 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 470 425 0 20 25
Korean 730 635 0 30 60
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,795 4,820 0 115 860
Chinese languages 5,770 4,800 0 115 860
Cantonese 1,880 1,490 0 30 370
Chaochow (Teochow) 25 15 0 0 0
Fukien 15 20 0 0 0
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,175 1,035 0 30 110
Shanghainese 10 15 0 0 0
Taiwanese 55 50 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 2,600 2,170 0 55 375
Tibetan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 75 70 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 70 65 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 450 400 0 10 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 50 0 0 5
Vietnamese 390 345 0 10 35
Malayo-Polynesian languages 1,015 995 0 15 5
Bisayan languages 95 90 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 30 0 0 0
Malay 30 25 0 5 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 830 820 0 10 0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 5 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 85 70 0 15 5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 50 40 0 10 5
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 20 0 0 5
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 10 0
Non-verbal languages 25 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 10
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,605 1,245 0 350 10
English and French 245 50 0 195 0
English and non-official language 1,260 1,165 5 90 10
French and non-official language 60 25 0 35 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 0 30 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011033.

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