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Appendix G
Mother tongue, home language and language of work: classifications from 2006, 2001 and 1996
Modified on November 19, 2009
Changes have been made in the language classification used in our products. In this appendix, the 2006, 2001, and 1996 classifications are compared.
Please note that in the second part of the questions on home language and language of work, the respondent had the option of marking the 'No' circle to indicate that there was no other language used on a regular basis.
The individual categories used in 2006 do not always match those used in 2001 and 1996. In most cases, however, the corresponding number can be obtained by adding all members of the language family.
| 2006 Classification | 2001 Classification | 1996 Classification |
|---|---|---|
Note: |
||
EnglishFrench |
EnglishFrench |
EnglishFrench |
Non-official languages |
Non-official languages |
Non-official languages |
Aboriginal languages |
Aboriginal languages |
Aboriginal languages |
Algonquian languages |
Algonquian languages |
Algonquian languages |
Algonquin |
Algonquin |
Algonquin |
Atikamekw 1 |
Attikamekw 2 |
Attikamek |
Cree |
Cree |
Cree |
Malecite |
Malecite |
Malecite |
Mi'kmaq1 |
Micmac |
Micmac |
Montagnais-Naskapi |
Montagnais-Naskapi |
Montagnais-Naskapi |
Ojibway |
Ojibway |
Ojibway |
Blackfoot |
Blackfoot |
Blackfoot |
Oji-Cree |
Oji-Cree |
Oji-Cree |
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. |
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. |
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. |
Athapaskan languages |
Athapaskan languages |
Athapaskan languages |
Carrier |
Carrier |
Carrier |
Chilcotin |
Chilcotin |
Chilcotin |
Chipewyan |
Chipewyan |
Chipewyan |
Dene |
Dene |
Dene |
Dogrib |
Dogrib |
Dogrib |
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux) |
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux) |
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux) |
North Slave (Hare) |
North Slave (Hare) |
North Slave (Hare) |
South Slave |
South Slave |
South Slave |
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. |
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. |
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. |
Haida |
Haida |
Haida |
Iroquoian languages |
Iroquoian languages |
Iroquoian languages |
Mohawk |
Mohawk |
Mohawk |
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. |
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. |
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. |
Kutenai |
Kutenai |
Kutenai |
Salish languages |
Salish languages |
Salish languages |
Shuswap |
Shuswap |
Shuswap
|
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) |
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) |
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) |
Salish languages, n.i.e. |
Salish languages, n.i.e. |
Salish languages, n.i.e. |
Siouan languages
(Dakota/Sioux) |
Siouan languages
Dakota/Sioux |
Siouan languages
Dakota/Sioux |
Tlingit |
Tlingit |
Tlingit |
Tsimshian languages |
Tsimshian languages |
Tsimshian languages |
Gitksan |
Gitksan |
Gitksan |
Nisga'a 1 |
Nishga |
Nishga |
Tsimshian |
Tsimshian |
Tsimshian |
Wakashan languages |
Wakashan languages |
Wakashan languages |
Nootka |
Nootka |
Nootka |
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. |
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. |
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. |
Inuktitut 1 |
Inuktitut (Eskimo) |
Inuktitut (Eskimo) |
Inuinnaqtun |
Not available |
Not available |
Inuktitut, n.i.e. |
Not available |
Not available |
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. |
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. |
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. |
Romance languages |
Romance languages |
Romance languages |
Italian |
Italian |
Italian |
Portuguese |
Portuguese |
Portuguese |
Romanian |
Romanian |
Romanian |
Spanish |
Spanish |
Spanish |
Romance languages, n.i.e. |
Romance languages, n.i.e. |
Romance languages, n.i.e. |
Germanic languages |
Germanic languages |
Germanic languages |
Not available |
Netherlandic languages |
Netherlandic languages |
Dutch |
Dutch |
Dutch |
Flemish |
Flemish |
Flemish |
Frisian |
Frisian |
Frisian |
German |
German |
German |
Yiddish |
Yiddish |
Yiddish
|
Scandinavian languages |
Scandinavian languages |
Scandinavian languages |
Danish |
Danish |
Danish |
Icelandic |
Icelandic |
Icelandic |
Norwegian |
Norwegian |
Norwegian |
Swedish |
Swedish |
Swedish |
Germanic languages, n.i.e. |
Germanic languages, n.i.e. |
Germanic languages, n.i.e. |
Celtic languages |
Celtic languages |
Celtic languages |
Gaelic languages |
Gaelic languages |
Gaelic languages |
Welsh |
Welsh |
Welsh |
Celtic languages, n.i.e. |
Celtic languages, n.i.e. |
Celtic languages, n.i.e. |
Slavic languages |
Slavic languages |
Slavic languages |
Belarusan (Byelorussian) 1 |
Byelorussian |
Byelorussian |
Bosnian |
Not available |
Not available |
Bulgarian |
Bulgarian |
Bulgarian |
Croatian |
Croatian |
Croatian |
Czech |
Czech |
Czech |
Macedonian |
Macedonian |
Macedonian |
Polish |
Polish |
Polish |
Russian |
Russian |
Russian |
Serbian |
Serbian |
Serbian |
Serbo-Croatian |
Serbo-Croatian |
Serbo-Croatian |
Slovak |
Slovak |
Slovak |
Slovenian |
Slovenian |
Slovenian |
Ukrainian |
Ukrainian |
Ukrainian |
Slavic languages, n.i.e. |
Slavic languages, n.i.e. |
Slavic languages, n.i.e. |
Baltic languages |
Baltic languages |
Baltic languages |
Latvian 1 |
Latvian (Lettish) |
Latvian (Lettish) |
Lithuanian |
Lithuanian |
Lithuanian |
Finno-Ugric languages |
Finno-Ugric languages |
Finno-Ugric languages |
Estonian |
Estonian |
Estonian |
Finnish |
Finnish |
Finnish |
Hungarian |
Hungarian |
Hungarian |
Greek |
Greek |
Greek
|
Armenian |
Armenian |
Armenian |
Turkic languages |
Turkic languages |
Turkic languages |
Azerbaijani |
Not available |
Not available |
Turkish |
Turkish |
Turkish |
Turkic languages, n.i.e. |
Turkic languages, n.i.e. |
Turkic languages, n.i.e. |
Afro-Asiatic languages |
Not available |
Not available |
Berber languages (Kabyle) |
Not available |
Not available |
Cushitic languages |
Not available |
Not available |
Oromo |
Not available |
Not available |
Somali 4 |
… |
… |
Semitic languages |
Semitic languages |
Semitic languages |
Amharic |
Amharic |
Amharic |
Arabic |
Arabic |
Arabic |
Hebrew |
Hebrew |
Hebrew |
Maltese |
Maltese |
Maltese |
… |
Somali |
Somali |
Tigrigna1 |
Tigringa |
Tigringa |
Semitic languages, n.i.e. |
Semitic languages, n.i.e. |
Semitic languages, n.i.e. |
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. |
Not available |
Not available |
Indo-Iranian languages |
Indo-Iranian languages |
Indo-Iranian languages |
Indo-Aryan languages |
Not available |
Not available |
Bengali |
Bengali |
Bengali |
Gujarati |
Gujarati |
Gujarati |
Hindi |
Hindi |
Hindi
|
Konkani |
Konkani |
Konkani |
Marathi |
Marathi |
Marathi |
Panjabi (Punjabi) 1 |
Punjabi |
Punjabi |
Sindhi |
Sindhi |
Sindhi |
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 1 |
Sinhalese |
Sinhalese |
Urdu |
Urdu |
Urdu |
Iranian languages |
Not available |
Not available |
Kurdish |
Kurdish |
Kurdish |
Pashto |
Pashto |
Pashto |
Persian (Farsi) |
Persian (Farsi) |
Persian (Farsi) |
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. |
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. |
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. |
Dravidian languages |
Dravidian languages |
Dravidian languages |
Kannada |
Kannada |
Kannada |
Malayalam |
Malayalam |
Malayalam |
Tamil |
Tamil |
Tamil |
Telugu |
Telugu |
Telugu |
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. |
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. |
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. |
Japanese |
Japanese |
Japanese |
Korean |
Korean |
Korean |
Sino-Tibetan languages |
Sino-Tibetan languages |
Sino-Tibetan languages |
Chinese languages 1 |
Chinese |
Chinese |
Cantonese |
Cantonese |
Not available |
Chaochow (Teochow) |
Not available |
Not available |
Fukien |
Not available |
Not available |
Hakka |
Hakka |
Not available |
Mandarin |
Mandarin |
Not available |
Shanghainese |
Not available |
Not available |
Taiwanese |
Not available |
Not available |
Chinese, n.o.s. |
Chinese, n.o.s. 3 |
Not available |
Tibetan languages |
Not available |
Not available |
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. |
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. |
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. |
Tai languages |
Tai languages |
Tai languages |
Lao |
Lao |
Lao
|
Thai |
Thai |
Thai |
Austro-Asiatic languages |
Austro-Asiatic languages |
Austro-Asiatic languages |
Khmer (Cambodian) |
Khmer (Cambodian) |
Khmer (Cambodian) |
Vietnamese |
Vietnamese |
Vietnamese |
Not available |
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. |
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. |
Malayo-Polynesian languages |
Malayo-Polynesian languages |
Malayo-Polynesian languages |
Bisayan languages |
Not available |
Not available |
Ilocano |
Not available |
Not available |
Malay 1 |
Malay-Bahasa |
Malay-Bahasa |
Pampango |
Not available |
Not available |
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1 |
Tagalog (Pilipino) |
Tagalog (Pilipino) |
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. |
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. |
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. |
Not available |
Asiatic languages, n.i.e. |
Asiatic languages, n.i.e. |
Niger-Congo languages |
Niger-Congo languages |
Niger-Congo languages |
Akan (Twi) 1 |
Twi |
Twi |
Bantu languages |
Bantu languages |
Bantu languages |
Lingala |
Not available |
Not available |
Rundi (Kirundi) |
Not available |
Not available |
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) |
Not available |
Not available |
Shona |
Not available |
Not available |
Swahili |
Swahili |
Swahili |
Bantu languages, n.i.e. |
Bantu languages, n.i.e. |
Bantu languages, n.i.e. |
Edo |
Not available |
Not available |
Igbo |
Not available |
Not available |
Wolof |
Not available |
Not available |
| Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. |
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. |
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. |
African languages, n.i.e. |
African languages, n.i.e. |
African languages, n.i.e. |
Creoles |
Creoles |
Creoles |
Non-verbal languages |
Not available |
Not available |
American Sign Language Quebec Sign Language Sign languages, n.i.e. |
Not available Not available Not available |
Not available Not available Not available |
Other languages |
Other languages |
Other languages |
