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Detailed Mother Tongue (148), Single and Multiple Language Responses (3) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data
About this variable: Detailed mother tongue (148)
Definition
Mother tongue
Part A - Plain language definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.
Values
- Total - Detailed mother tongue Footnote 1
- English
- French
- Algonquin
- Atikamekw
- Blackfoot
- Cree
- Malecite
- Mi'kmaq
- Montagnais-Naskapi
- Ojibway
- Oji-Cree
- Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
- Carrier
- Chilcotin
- Chipewyan
- Dene
- Dogrib
- Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
- North Slave (Hare)
- South Slave
- Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
- Haida
- Mohawk
- Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
- Kutenai
- Shuswap
- Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
- Salish languages, n.i.e.
- Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
- Tlingit
- Gitksan
- Nisga'a
- Tsimshian
- Nootka
- Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
- Inuinnaqtun
- Inuktitut, n.i.e.
- Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Romance languages, n.i.e.
- Dutch
- Flemish
- Frisian
- German
- Yiddish
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Gaelic languages
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Belarusian (Byelorussian)
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Berber languages (Kabyle)
- Oromo
- Somali
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Panjabi (Punjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Korean
- Cantonese
- Chaochow (Teochow)
- Fukien
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Shanghainese
- Taiwanese
- Chinese, n.o.s. Footnote 119
- Tibetan languages
- Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
- Lao
- Thai
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Bisayan languages
- Ilocano
- Malay
- Pampango
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
- Akan (Twi)
- Lingala
- Rundi (Kirundi)
- Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
- Shona
- Swahili
- Bantu languages, n.i.e.
- Edo
- Igbo
- Wolof
- Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
- African languages, n.i.e.
- Creoles
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.
- Footnote 119
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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.'