Language Highlight Tables, 2016 Census

Aboriginal mother tongue, Aboriginal language spoken most often at home and Other Aboriginal language(s) spoken regularly at home for the population excluding institutional residents of Nova Scotia, 2016 Census – 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction Update of the 2016 Census language data

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This table shows Aboriginal mother tongue, Aboriginal language spoken most often at home and Other Aboriginal language(s) spoken regularly at home for the population excluding institutional residents of Nova Scotia, 2016 Census – 100% Data. The column headings are: Aboriginal languages; Mother tongue; Language spoken most often at home; Other language(s) spoken regularly at home
Aboriginal languages Footnote 1 Mother tongue Language spoken most often at home Other language(s) spoken regularly at home
Aboriginal languages 4,560 2,955 2,150
Algonquian languages 4,460 2,920 2,080
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 5 20
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 5
Cree, n.o.s. 10 0 15
Eastern Algonquian languages 4,425 2,910 2,065
Malecite 10 5 5
Mi'kmaq 4,420 2,910 2,060
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 15 0 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 10 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 0 5
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 5 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 5 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 5
Inuit languages 75 20 50
Inuinnaqtun 5 0 0
Inuktitut 65 20 45
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5
Iroquoian languages 0 0 5
Cayuga 0 5 0
Mohawk 0 0 5
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 5 5 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 5 0 5
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 5
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 0 0
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