North Eastman Region
 |
Regional
Profile
|
Knowledge of Languages
1996 Census
|
|
|
| Total population |
42,290 |
% base |
By knowledge of
official languages: |
|
|
|
English only |
38,335 |
91% |
|
French only |
30 |
0% |
|
English and French |
3,825 |
9% |
|
Neither English nor French |
85 |
0% |
|
|
|
| Dominant group English only
|
|
|
| Total population |
42,290 |
% base |
| By first official language
spoken: |
|
|
|
English |
40,635 |
96% |
|
French |
1,545 |
4% |
|
English and French |
0 |
0% |
|
Neither English nor French |
115 |
0% |
| |
|
|
| Dominant Group English
|
|
|
| Official language minority
|
|
|
|
Number |
1,545 |
3.7 % |
| |
|
|
| Total population |
42,290 |
% base |
| Dominant non-official language
known German |
|
|
| By knowledge of unofficial
language: |
|
|
|
Italian |
65 |
0% |
|
German |
3,050 |
7% |
|
Chinese |
10 |
0% |
|
Spanish |
125 |
0% |
|
Portuguese |
125 |
0% |
|
Ukrainian |
2,095 |
5% |
|
Polish |
700 |
2% |
|
Dutch |
340 |
1% |
|
Punjabi |
0 |
0% |
|
Arabic |
0 |
0% |
|
Greek |
10 |
0% |
|
Tagalog (Pilipino) |
60 |
0% |
|
Vietnamese |
10 |
0% |
|
Hindi |
10 |
0% |
|
Hungarian |
75 |
0% |
|
Russian |
55 |
0% |
|
Gujarati |
0 |
0% |
|
Yiddish |
10 |
0% |
|
Hebrew |
10 |
0% |
|
Urdu |
0 |
0% |
|
Creoles |
0 |
0% |
|
Persian (Farsi) |
0 |
0% |
|
Croatian |
10 |
0% |
|
Japanese |
0 |
0% |
|
Korean |
0 |
0% |
|
Tamil |
0 |
0% |
|
Finnish |
30 |
0% |
|
Armenian |
0 |
0% |
|
Romanian |
20 |
0% |
|
Czech |
35 |
0% |
|
Danish |
20 |
0% |
| |
|
|
| Non-verbal languages |
115 |
0% |
| |
|
|
|
Turkish |
0 |
0% |
|
Macedonian |
0 |
0% |
|
Slovak |
20 |
0% |
|
Khmer (Cambodian) |
0 |
0% |
|
Swedish |
100 |
0% |
|
Swahili |
10 |
0% |
|
Norwegian |
10 |
0% |
|
Lao |
0 |
0% |
|
Malay-Bahasa |
0 |
0% |
|
Serbian |
0 |
0% |
|
Lithuanian |
10 |
0% |
|
Estonian |
0 |
0% |
|
Latvian (Lettish) |
45 |
0% |
|
Bengali |
0 |
0% |
|
Maltese |
10 |
0% |
|
Flemish |
30 |
0% |
|
Slovenian |
10 |
0% |
| |
|
|
| Gaelic languages |
0 |
0% |
|
Sinhalese |
0 |
0% |
|
Serbo-Croatian |
0 |
0% |
|
Thai |
0 |
0% |
|
Bulgarian |
0 |
0% |
|
Malayalam |
10 |
0% |
|
Icelandic |
20 |
0% |
|
Frisian |
0 |
0% |
|
Kurdish |
0 |
0% |
|
Pashto |
0 |
0% |
| |
|
|
| Aboriginal Languages |
1,015 |
2% |
|
Cree |
45 |
0% |
|
Ojibway |
950 |
2% |
|
Inuktitut (Eskimo) |
20 |
0% |
|
Montagnais-Naskapi |
0 |
0% |
|
Micmac |
0 |
0% |
|
Blackfoot |
0 |
0% |
|
Dakota/Sioux |
0 |
0% |
|
South Slave |
0 |
0% |
|
Nishga |
0 |
0% |
|
Chipewyan |
0 |
0% |
|
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux) |
0 |
0% |
|
Tlingit |
0 |
0% |
|
Dogrib |
0 |
0% |
| |
|
|
| Other languages |
35 |
0% |
|