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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 (2013 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 Cowichan--Malahat--Langford
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 98,295 92,165 25 5,855 240
Single responses 97,530 91,570 25 5,690 240
English 89,230 85,045 0 4,165 15
French 1,380 215 20 1,145 0
Non-official languages 6,915 6,305 5 385 225
Aboriginal languages 345 345 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 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 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 5 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 5 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 305 305 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 275 280 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. 20 25 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 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 25 20 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 20 20 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. 5 10 0 0 0
Romance languages 705 605 0 85 10
Italian 200 175 0 25 0
Portuguese 155 135 0 10 5
Romanian 35 25 0 10 0
Spanish 315 270 0 35 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,310 2,135 0 170 0
Dutch 765 705 0 60 0
Flemish 15 5 0 10 0
Frisian 10 10 0 0 0
German 1,215 1,125 0 85 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 270 260 0 10 0
Danish 170 165 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 45 0 5 0
Swedish 45 45 0 0 0
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 25 15 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 715 675 0 35 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 70 70 0 0 0
Czech 70 70 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 200 185 0 15 0
Russian 115 110 0 5 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 5 0
Slovak 20 25 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 170 160 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Latvian 20 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 250 230 0 15 5
Estonian 10 10 0 5 0
Finnish 90 85 0 5 0
Hungarian 155 140 0 10 0
Turkic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 60 45 0 15 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Oromo 5 0 0 5 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 55 40 0 15 0
Amharic 5 0 0 5 0
Arabic 40 30 0 10 5
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,155 1,010 0 30 110
Indo-Aryan languages 1,035 905 0 25 100
Bengali 15 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 5 0
Hindi 35 35 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 940 820 0 15 100
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 110 95 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 20 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 75 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 110 95 0 10 5
Korean 130 105 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 440 385 0 5 45
Chinese languages 430 380 0 5 45
Cantonese 115 95 0 0 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 100 90 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 205 180 0 0 20
Tibetan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 165 155 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 150 140 5 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 345 340 0 5 5
Bisayan languages 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 265 265 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 15 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 5 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 25 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 765 600 5 165 0
English and French 180 50 0 130 0
English and non-official language 540 520 0 25 0
French and non-official language 30 20 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011055.

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