Census Profile - Preview of content: Language

The profile will include characteristics such as population, age, sex, dwellings, families, marital status and language. These data will be available according to the 2011 Census release schedule.

The content of these profiles are subject to change until the time of their official release.

The following is a preview of the content for the Language release (October 24, 2012):

  • Total - Detailed mother tongue
    • Single responses         
      • English
      • French
      • Non-official languages
        • Aboriginal languages
          • Algonquin
          • Atikamekw
          • Blackfoot
          • Carrier
          • Chilcotin
          • Chipewyan
          • Cree
          • Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
          • Dene
          • Dogrib
          • Gitksan
          • Inuinnaqtun
          • Inuktitut, n.i.e.
          • Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
          • Malecite
          • Mi'kmaq
          • Mohawk
          • Montagnais-Naskapi
          • Nisga'a
          • North Slave (Hare)
          • Ojibway
          • Oji-Cree
          • Shuswap
          • South Slave
          • Tlingit
        • Non-aboriginal languages
          • Italian
          • Portuguese
          • Romanian
          • Spanish
          • Danish
          • Dutch
          • Flemish
          • Frisian
          • German
          • Norwegian
          • Swedish
          • Yiddish
          • Bosnian
          • Bulgarian
          • Croatian
          • Czech
          • Macedonian
          • Polish
          • Russian
          • Serbian
          • Serbo-Croatian
          • Slovak
          • Slovenian
          • Ukrainian
          • Latvian
          • Lithuanian
          • Estonian
          • Finnish
          • Hungarian
          • Greek
          • Armenian
          • Turkish
          • Amharic
          • Arabic
          • Hebrew
          • Maltese
          • Somali
          • Tigrigna
          • Bengali
          • Gujarati
          • Hindi
          • Kurdish
          • Panjabi (Punjabi)
          • Pashto
          • Persian (Farsi)
          • Sindhi
          • Sinhala (Sinhalese)
          • Urdu
          • Malayalam
          • Tamil
          • Telugu
          • Japanese
          • Korean
          • Cantonese
          • Chinese, n.o.s.
          • Mandarin
          • Taiwanese
          • Lao
          • Khmer (Cambodian)
          • Estonian
          • Vietnamese
          • Bisayan languages
          • Ilocano
          • Malay
          • Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
          • Akan (Twi)
          • Swahili
          • Creoles
          • Other languages
    • Multiple responses
      • English and French
      • English and non-official language
      • French and non-official language
      • English, French and non-official language
  • Total - Knowledge of official languages
    • English only
    • French only
    • English and French
    • Neither English nor French
  • Total - First official language spoken
    • English
    • French
    • English and French
    • Neither English nor French
    • Official language minority (number)1
    • Official language minority (percentage)1
  • Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home
    • Single responses         
      • English
      • French
      • Non-official languages
        • Aboriginal languages
          • Algonquin
          • Atikamekw
          • Blackfoot
          • Carrier
          • Chilcotin
          • Chipewyan
          • Cree
          • Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
          • Dene
          • Dogrib
          • Gitksan
          • Inuinnaqtun
          • Inuktitut, n.i.e.
          • Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
          • Malecite
          • Mi'kmaq
          • Mohawk
          • Montagnais-Naskapi
          • Nisga'a
          • North Slave (Hare)
          • Ojibway
          • Oji-Cree
          • Shuswap
          • South Slave
          • Tlingit
        • Non-aboriginal languages
          • Italian
          • Portuguese
          • Romanian
          • Spanish
          • Danish
          • Dutch
          • Flemish
          • Frisian
          • German
          • Norwegian
          • Swedish
          • Yiddish
          • Bosnian
          • Bulgarian
          • Croatian
          • Czech
          • Macedonian
          • Polish
          • Russian
          • Serbian
          • Serbo-Croatian
          • Slovak
          • Slovenian
          • Ukrainian
          • Latvian
          • Lithuanian
          • Estonian
          • Finnish
          • Hungarian
          • Greek
          • Armenian
          • Turkish
          • Amharic
          • Arabic
          • Hebrew
          • Maltese
          • Somali
          • Tigrigna
          • Bengali
          • Gujarati
          • Hindi
          • Kurdish
          • Panjabi (Punjabi)
          • Pashto
          • Persian (Farsi)
          • Sindhi
          • Sinhala (Sinhalese)
          • Urdu
          • Malayalam
          • Tamil
          • Telugu
          • Japanese
          • Korean
          • Cantonese
          • Chinese, n.o.s.
          • Mandarin
          • Taiwanese
          • Lao
          • Khmer (Cambodian)
          • Estonian
          • Vietnamese
          • Bisayan languages
          • Ilocano
          • Malay
          • Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
          • Akan (Twi)
          • Swahili
          • Creoles
          • Other languages
    • Multiple responses
      • English and French
      • English and non-official language
      • French and non-official language
      • English, French and non-official language
  • Total - Detailed language regularly spoken  at home 
    • Single responses         
      • English
      • French
      • Non-official languages
        • Aboriginal languages
          • Algonquin
          • Atikamekw
          • Blackfoot
          • Carrier
          • Chilcotin
          • Chipewyan
          • Cree
          • Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
          • Dene
          • Dogrib
          • Gitksan
          • Inuinnaqtun
          • Inuktitut, n.i.e.
          • Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
          • Malecite
          • Mi'kmaq
          • Mohawk
          • Montagnais-Naskapi
          • Nisga'a
          • North Slave (Hare)
          • Ojibway
          • Oji-Cree
          • Shuswap
          • South Slave
          • Tlingit
        • Non-aboriginal languages
          • Italian
          • Portuguese
          • Romanian
          • Spanish
          • Danish
          • Dutch
          • Flemish
          • Frisian
          • German
          • Norwegian
          • Swedish
          • Yiddish
          • Bosnian
          • Bulgarian
          • Croatian
          • Czech
          • Macedonian
          • Polish
          • Russian
          • Serbian
          • Serbo-Croatian
          • Slovak
          • Slovenian
          • Ukrainian
          • Latvian
          • Lithuanian
          • Estonian
          • Finnish
          • Hungarian
          • Greek
          • Armenian
          • Turkish
          • Amharic
          • Arabic
          • Hebrew
          • Maltese
          • Somali
          • Tigrigna
          • Bengali
          • Gujarati
          • Hindi
          • Kurdish
          • Panjabi (Punjabi)
          • Pashto
          • Persian (Farsi)
          • Sindhi
          • Sinhala (Sinhalese)
          • Urdu
          • Malayalam
          • Tamil
          • Telugu
          • Japanese
          • Korean
          • Cantonese
          • Chinese, n.o.s.
          • Mandarin
          • Taiwanese
          • Lao
          • Khmer (Cambodian)
          • Estonian
          • Vietnamese
          • Bisayan languages
          • Ilocano
          • Malay
          • Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
          • Akan (Twi)
          • Swahili
          • Creoles
          • Other languages
    • Multiple responses
      • English and French
      • English and non-official language
      • French and non-official language
      • English, French and non-official language
  • Total - Other non official languages spoken
    • Aboriginal languages
      • Algonquin
      • Atikamekw
      • Blackfoot
      • Carrier
      • Chilcotin
      • Chipewyan
      • Cree
      • Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
      • Dene
      • Dogrib
      • Gitksan
      • Inuinnaqtun
      • Inuktitut, n.i.e.
      • Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
      • Malecite
      • Mi'kmaq
      • Mohawk
      • Montagnais-Naskapi
      • Nisga'a
      • North Slave (Hare)
      • Ojibway
      • Oji-Cree
      • Shuswap
      • South Slave
      • Tlingit
    • Non-aboriginal languages
      • Italian
      • Portuguese
      • Romanian
      • Spanish
      • Danish
      • Dutch
      • Flemish
      • Frisian
      • German
      • Norwegian
      • Swedish
      • Yiddish
      • Bosnian
      • Bulgarian
      • Croatian
      • Czech
      • Macedonian
      • Polish
      • Russian
      • Serbian
      • Serbo-Croatian
      • Slovak
      • Slovenian
      • Ukrainian
      • Latvian
      • Lithuanian
      • Estonian
      • Finnish
      • Hungarian
      • Greek
      • Armenian
      • Turkish
      • Amharic
      • Arabic
      • Hebrew
      • Maltese
      • Somali
      • Tigrigna
      • Bengali
      • Gujarati
      • Hindi
      • Kurdish
      • Panjabi (Punjabi)
      • Pashto
      • Persian (Farsi)
      • Sindhi
      • Sinhala (Sinhalese)
      • Urdu
      • Malayalam
      • Tamil
      • Telugu
      • Japanese
      • Korean
      • Cantonese
      • Chinese, n.o.s.
      • Mandarin
      • Taiwanese
      • Lao
      • Khmer (Cambodian)
      • Estonian
      • Vietnamese
      • Bisayan languages
      • Ilocano
      • Malay
      • Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
      • Akan (Twi)
      • Swahili
      • Creoles
    • Other languages

Note

1. English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.