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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 Yellowknife
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 18,990 16,435 770 460 1,280 5 5 40 0
Single responses 18,720 16,240 755 445 1,235 0 5 40 0
English 15,125 14,510 40 260 290 0 0 20 0
French 810 410 215 160 15 0 0 0 0
Non-official languages 2,790 1,315 500 20 930 0 10 15 0
Aboriginal languages 755 345 35 0 375 0 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 25 15 0 0 10 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 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0 5 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 5 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 5 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 535 230 20 0 285 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 115 60 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 260 100 10 0 145 0 0 5 0
Gwich'in 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 70 30 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 20 10 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 55 25 0 5 25 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 5 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 185 90 10 0 80 0 0 5 0
Inuktitut 110 50 10 0 55 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 20 5 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 45 30 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 135 65 30 0 40 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 25 0 5 10 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 20 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 70 20 25 0 25 0 0 5 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 195 125 20 5 50 0 0 0 0
Dutch 40 30 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 135 75 15 5 40 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 20 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 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 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 165 90 25 5 45 0 0 0 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 5 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 25 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Russian 30 15 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Serbian 10 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 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 75 15 30 0 30 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 20 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 5 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 0 5 0 10 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 160 70 40 0 45 0 0 5 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 35 10 5 0 20 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 10 5 0 20 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 120 60 30 0 25 0 0 5 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 95 40 30 5 10 0 0 5 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 5 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. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 150 70 35 5 50 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 130 60 30 0 35 0 0 0 0
Bengali 35 15 10 5 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 10 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 20 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 10 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 15 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 5 0 0 10 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) 15 5 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 5 5 0 5 0 0 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 170 70 55 0 40 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 170 75 55 0 40 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 80 30 20 0 20 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 20 5 10 0 0 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. 75 35 25 0 15 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 155 100 40 0 15 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 155 100 40 0 15 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 560 265 150 0 140 0 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 55 25 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 20 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampango 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 455 215 125 0 110 0 5 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 85 30 15 0 35 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 80 30 15 0 30 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 5 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 45 15 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 10 10 0 0 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. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 40 10 10 10 10 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 0 0 0 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 270 190 20 20 45 0 0 0 0
English and French 65 50 5 20 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 195 135 15 0 40 5 0 5 0
French and non-official language 10 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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