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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 Nanaimo
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 96,915 91,010 1,430 875 3,475 10 20 90 0
Single responses 96,040 90,360 1,395 825 3,340 10 15 90 0
English 85,840 84,360 40 510 895 0 0 40 0
French 1,345 890 140 300 10 0 5 5 0
Non-official languages 8,855 5,110 1,220 20 2,435 10 15 40 0
Aboriginal languages 80 55 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 5 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 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 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 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 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 5 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 25 20 0 0 5 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 15 10 0 0 5 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. 10 5 0 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 15 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 10 5 0 0 5 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) 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Inuktitut 5 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. 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 800 410 100 5 275 5 0 5 0
Italian 270 170 20 0 70 5 0 5 0
Portuguese 90 60 10 5 15 0 0 5 0
Romanian 45 15 0 5 20 0 0 0 0
Spanish 400 165 70 5 160 5 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 2,455 1,640 130 5 660 5 0 20 0
Dutch 605 415 40 5 140 0 5 5 0
Flemish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
German 1,295 860 65 0 355 0 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 445 305 5 0 130 0 0 5 0
Danish 250 180 5 0 65 0 0 5 0
Icelandic 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 80 55 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Swedish 90 55 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 85 40 20 0 25 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 35 25 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 25 15 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,040 610 130 0 285 0 5 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 155 80 20 0 50 0 0 0 0
Czech 125 60 30 5 30 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 230 135 30 0 65 0 0 0 0
Russian 175 110 20 0 40 5 0 0 0
Serbian 50 15 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 50 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 185 145 5 0 35 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 70 35 20 0 20 0 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 330 195 40 0 100 0 0 0 0
Estonian 15 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 115 75 10 0 30 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 205 110 25 0 60 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages 20 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 5 0 5 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 150 75 25 0 45 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 140 65 25 0 50 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 110 50 25 0 40 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 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 1,225 645 280 5 295 0 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 1,120 585 260 5 275 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 40 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Hindi 85 35 15 0 35 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) 935 490 240 0 205 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 100 60 15 0 15 0 5 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 100 60 20 0 20 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 215 110 30 0 75 0 0 0 0
Korean 280 165 60 0 55 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,105 610 235 5 255 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 1,100 605 235 0 250 5 5 0 0
Cantonese 195 105 40 0 50 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 5 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 315 175 65 0 70 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 35 20 0 0 10 0 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 555 305 130 0 120 0 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 65 30 5 0 30 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 65 35 5 0 30 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 420 240 110 0 70 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 65 10 0 20 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 335 175 100 0 55 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 410 190 45 0 175 0 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 340 160 40 0 145 0 0 5 0
Bikol 5 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. 20 10 0 0 5 0 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 20 5 0 30 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 15 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 10 0 0 10 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 10 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 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 20 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 875 645 35 50 135 5 0 5 0
English and French 225 170 5 40 5 0 0 5 0
English and non-official language 585 430 30 5 120 0 0 5 0
French and non-official language 35 30 0 5 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 25 20 0 0 5 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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