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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 Kentville
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 26,135 25,495 140 280 195 5 0 10 0
Single responses 26,045 25,445 135 265 185 5 5 15 0
English 25,175 24,940 5 180 40 0 0 5 0
French 310 195 30 80 5 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 560 305 100 5 140 5 0 5 0
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 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 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 0 0 0 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 45 35 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 35 10 0 0 0 0 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 265 165 20 5 65 0 5 0 0
Dutch 165 110 10 0 45 0 0 5 0
Flemish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 65 35 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 40 15 10 0 10 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 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 5 0 0 5 0 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 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0 0 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 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 35 10 10 0 5 5 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 30 10 15 0 0 5 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 35 10 15 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 15 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 5 5 0 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) 0 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 5 0 0 0 0 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) 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 5 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 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 55 20 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 55 20 10 0 25 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 30 10 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 0 0 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 5 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 30 10 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 20 10 10 0 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 0 0 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 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 15 10 0 0 5 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. 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 90 60 5 20 10 0 0 0 0
English and French 45 30 0 15 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 40 30 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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

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