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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Detailed Mother Tongue (158), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-Official Languages Spoken (5), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 National Household Survey

About this variable: Detailed mother tongue (158)

Definition

Mother tongue

Part A - Short definition
Not applicable

Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual on May 10, 2011.

 

Values

  1. Total - Detailed mother tongue
  2. Single responses
  3. English
  4. French
  5. Non-official languages
  6. Aboriginal languages
  7. Romance languages
  8. Italian
  9. Portuguese
  10. Romanian
  11. Spanish
  12. Catalan
  13. Romance languages, n.i.e.
  14. Germanic languages
  15. Dutch
  16. Flemish
  17. Frisian
  18. German
  19. Yiddish
  20. Scandinavian languages
  21. Danish
  22. Icelandic
  23. Norwegian
  24. Swedish
  25. Afrikaans
  26. Germanic languages, n.i.e.
  27. Celtic languages
  28. Gaelic languages
  29. Welsh
  30. Celtic languages, n.i.e.
  31. Slavic languages
  32. Belarusian (Byelorussian)
  33. Bosnian
  34. Bulgarian
  35. Croatian
  36. Czech
  37. Macedonian
  38. Polish
  39. Russian
  40. Serbian
  41. Serbo-Croatian
  42. Slovak
  43. Slovenian
  44. Ukrainian
  45. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  46. Baltic languages
  47. Latvian
  48. Lithuanian
  49. Greek
  50. Armenian
  51. Albanian
  52. Georgian
  53. Finno-Ugric languages
  54. Estonian
  55. Finnish
  56. Hungarian
  57. Turkic languages
  58. Azerbaijani
  59. Turkish
  60. Turkic languages, n.i.e.
  61. Mongolian
  62. Afro-Asiatic languages
  63. Berber languages (Kabyle)
  64. Cushitic languages
  65. Oromo
  66. Somali
  67. Semitic languages
  68. Amharic
  69. Arabic
  70. Hebrew
  71. Maltese
  72. Tigrigna
  73. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  74. Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
  75. Indo-Iranian languages
  76. Indo-Aryan languages
  77. Bengali
  78. Gujarati
  79. Hindi
  80. Konkani
  81. Marathi
  82. Panjabi (Punjabi)
  83. Sindhi
  84. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
  85. Urdu
  86. Nepali
  87. Iranian languages
  88. Kurdish
  89. Pashto
  90. Persian (Farsi)
  91. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  92. Dravidian languages
  93. Kannada
  94. Malayalam
  95. Tamil
  96. Telugu
  97. Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
  98. Japanese
  99. Korean
  100. Sino-Tibetan languages
  101. Chinese languages
  102. Cantonese
  103. Chaochow (Teochow)
  104. Fukien
  105. Hakka
  106. Mandarin
  107. Shanghainese
  108. Taiwanese
  109. Chinese, n.o.s.
  110. Tibetan languages
  111. Burmese
  112. Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
  113. Tai languages
  114. Lao
  115. Thai
  116. Austro-Asiatic languages
  117. Khmer (Cambodian)
  118. Vietnamese
  119. Malayo-Polynesian languages
  120. Bisayan languages
  121. Ilocano
  122. Malay
  123. Pampango
  124. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
  125. Bikol
  126. Malagasy
  127. Fijian
  128. Pangasinan
  129. Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
  130. Niger-Congo languages
  131. Akan (Twi)
  132. Bantu languages
  133. Lingala
  134. Rundi (Kirundi)
  135. Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
  136. Shona
  137. Swahili
  138. Ganda
  139. Bantu languages, n.i.e.
  140. Edo
  141. Igbo
  142. Wolof
  143. Bamanankan
  144. Ewe
  145. Ga
  146. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  147. African languages, n.i.e.
  148. Creoles
  149. Non-verbal languages
  150. American Sign Language
  151. Quebec Sign Language
  152. Sign languages, n.i.e.
  153. Other languages
  154. Multiple responses
  155. English and French
  156. English and non-official language
  157. French and non-official language
  158. English, French and non-official language
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