Plain language definition
Not applicable
Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual on May 10, 2011.
Values (English)
Total - Detailed mother tongue
Single responses
English
French
Non-official languages
Aboriginal languages
Romance languages
Italian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Catalan
Romance languages, n.i.e.
Germanic languages
Dutch
Flemish
Frisian
German
Yiddish
Scandinavian languages
Danish
Icelandic
Norwegian
Swedish
Afrikaans
Germanic languages, n.i.e.
Celtic languages
Gaelic languages
Welsh
Celtic languages, n.i.e.
Slavic languages
Belarusian (Byelorussian)
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Macedonian
Polish
Russian
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Ukrainian
Slavic languages, n.i.e.
Baltic languages
Latvian
Lithuanian
Greek
Armenian
Albanian
Georgian
Finno-Ugric languages
Estonian
Finnish
Hungarian
Turkic languages
Azerbaijani
Turkish
Turkic languages, n.i.e.
Mongolian
Afro-Asiatic languages
Berber languages (Kabyle)
Cushitic languages
Oromo
Somali
Semitic languages
Amharic
Arabic
Hebrew
Maltese
Tigrigna
Semitic languages, n.i.e.
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Aryan languages
Bengali
Gujarati
Hindi
Konkani
Marathi
Panjabi (Punjabi)
Sindhi
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
Urdu
Nepali
Iranian languages
Kurdish
Pashto
Persian (Farsi)
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
Dravidian languages
Kannada
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
Japanese
Korean
Sino-Tibetan languages
Chinese languages
Cantonese
Chaochow (Teochow)
Fukien
Hakka
Mandarin
Shanghainese
Taiwanese
Chinese, n.o.s.
Tibetan languages
Burmese
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
Tai languages
Lao
Thai
Austro-Asiatic languages
Khmer (Cambodian)
Vietnamese
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Bisayan languages
Ilocano
Malay
Pampango
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
Bikol
Malagasy
Fijian
Pangasinan
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
Niger-Congo languages
Akan (Twi)
Bantu languages
Lingala
Rundi (Kirundi)
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
Shona
Swahili
Ganda
Bantu languages, n.i.e.
Edo
Igbo
Wolof
Bamanankan
Ewe
Ga
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
African languages, n.i.e.
Creoles
Non-verbal languages
American Sign Language
Quebec Sign Language
Sign languages, n.i.e.
Other languages
Multiple responses
English and French
English and non-official language
French and non-official language
English, French and non-official language