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Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (103), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (4) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data
About this variable: Detailed language spoken most often at home (103)
Definition
Refers to the language spoken most often at home by the individual at the time of the census. Data on other languages spoken on a regular basis at home are also collected.
Values
- Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home
- Single responses
- English
- French
- Non-official 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
- 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. Footnote 85
- Mandarin
- Taiwanese
- Lao
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Bisayan languages
- Ilocano
- Malay
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Akan (Twi)
- Swahili
- Creoles
- Other languages Footnote 98
- Multiple responses
- English and French
- English and non-official language
- French and non-official language
- English, French and non-official language
Footnotes
- Footnote 85
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The 2006 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' includes responses of 'Chinese' as well as all Chinese languages other than Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Hakka and Shanghainese. Data for the 'Chinese, n.o.s.' category in 2001 and 2006 are not directly comparable. The 2001 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' is equivalent to the sum of the 2006 categories 'Chinese, n.o.s.' and 'Chaochow (Teochow),' 'Fukien,' 'Shanghainese' and Taiwanese.'
- Footnote 98
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This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix G in the 2006 Census Dictionary.