Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269) and Other Language(s) Spoken Regularly at Home (11) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 100% Data

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This table details mother tongue , language spoken most often at home and other language spoken regularly at home for the population excluding institutional residents in Victoriaville
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Mother tongue (269) Other language(s) spoken regularly at home (11)
Total - Other language(s) spoken regularly at home None English French Non-official language Aboriginal Non-Aboriginal English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 2 48,500 46,350 1,390 360 335 0 335 15 45 10 5
Single responses 48,250 46,155 1,360 355 325 0 320 10 40 5 5
Official languages 47,270 45,665 1,335 105 125 0 125 5 30 0 0
English 305 160 95 45 5 0 0 0 5 0 0
French 46,960 45,505 1,245 55 120 0 120 5 35 0 0
Non-official languages 980 490 20 250 200 0 195 10 5 5 0
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 980 490 25 250 195 0 195 10 5 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 115 70 0 5 30 0 35 5 0 0 0
Berber languages 10 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 10 5 0 0 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 100 65 0 5 25 0 30 0 0 0 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 100 65 5 5 30 0 25 5 0 0 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 15 5 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 5 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 645 300 20 195 125 0 125 10 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 70 30 0 20 15 0 15 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 65 30 5 20 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 10 0 10 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 10 5 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 10 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 35 20 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 5 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 30 20 0 0 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 10 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 15 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 5 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 515 240 5 170 90 0 85 10 0 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 10 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 480 220 5 165 80 0 80 10 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 105 60 0 20 25 0 25 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 15 5 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 55 35 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 30 25 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 30 20 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 25 20 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 250 190 30 5 10 0 15 0 5 0 0
English and French 150 110 30 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
French and non-official language 85 70 5 0 10 0 10 0 5 0 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016074.

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