Data tables, 2016 Census

Language Spoken at Home (263), Single and Multiple Responses of Language Spoken at Home (3), Mother Tongue (269) and Age (7) 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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Mother tongue (269)^{Footnote 1}

Age (7)

This table details language spoken at home , single and multiple responses of language spoken at home , mother tongue and age for the population excluding institutional residents in Victoriaville
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Language spoken at home (263)	Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home (3)
Language spoken at home (263)	Total - Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home^Footnote 2	Single response of language spoken at home^Footnote 3	Multiple responses of language spoken at home^Footnote 4
Total - Language spoken at home^{Footnote 5}	48,505	45,985	2,520
Official languages	48,195	45,685	2,510
English	1,805	70	1,740
French	48,090	45,620	2,475
Non-official languages	1,210	295	910
Aboriginal languages	5	0	5
Algonquian languages	5	5	5
Blackfoot	0	0	0
Cree-Montagnais languages	0	5	5
Atikamekw	5	0	0
Montagnais (Innu)	0	0	5
Moose Cree	0	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0
Northern East Cree	0	0	0
Plains Cree	0	0	0
Southern East Cree	0	0	0
Swampy Cree	0	0	0
Woods Cree	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Eastern Algonquian languages	0	0	0
Malecite	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	0	0	0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages	0	0	0
Northern Athabaskan languages	0	0	0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0	0	0
Beaver	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0
Dene	0	0	0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0	0	0
Gwich'in	0	0	0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0	0	0
Sekani	0	0	0
Slavey-Hare languages	0	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	0
Inuit languages	0	0	0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0	0	0
Inuktitut	0	0	0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0
Cayuga	0	0	0
Mohawk	0	0	0
Oneida	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0
Michif	0	0	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	0	0	0
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	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	5	0	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	1,200	300	905
Afro-Asiatic languages	125	35	90
Berber languages	10	0	10
Kabyle	10	0	10
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0
Bilen	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Semitic languages	115	35	85
Amharic	0	0	0
Arabic	115	35	80
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	5
Maltese	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	25	5	20
Khmer (Cambodian)	10	5	5
Vietnamese	10	5	10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	5	0	5
Bikol	0	0	0
Cebuano	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	5	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Creole languages	35	0	35
Haitian Creole	5	0	5
Creole, n.o.s.	30	0	30
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	805	185	620
Albanian	5	0	5
Armenian	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	65	20	45
Baltic languages	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0
Slavic languages	70	20	45
Belarusan	0	0	0
Bosnian	5	0	5
Bulgarian	0	0	0
Croatian	30	5	20
Czech	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0
Polish	0	0	0
Russian	10	0	5
Serbian	5	0	5
Serbo-Croatian	20	10	5
Slovak	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Germanic languages	50	0	40
Afrikaans	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	5
Dutch	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0
German	40	0	35
Icelandic	5	0	5
Norwegian	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Greek	10	5	5
Indo-Iranian languages	5	0	10
Indo-Aryan languages	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0
Iranian languages	5	0	5
Kurdish	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	5	0	5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	670	160	510
Catalan	0	0	0
Italian	15	0	15
Portuguese	15	0	10
Romanian	10	5	5
Spanish	635	150	485
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Japanese	5	5	5
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0
Korean	0	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	125	35	85
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0
Lingala	20	5	20
Rundi (Kirundi)	5	5	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	10	0	10
Shona	0	0	0
Swahili	65	25	45
Wolof	10	0	5
Yoruba	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	20	5	15
Nilo-Saharan languages	5	0	5
Dinka	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	5
Sign languages	20	5	15
American Sign Language	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	10	0	10
Sign languages, n.i.e	10	0	10
Sino-Tibetan languages	40	25	15
Chinese languages	40	25	15
Cantonese	5	0	5
Hakka	0	0	0
Mandarin	30	25	15
Min Dong	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	5
Tibeto-Burman languages	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Turkic languages	20	0	20
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Turkish	20	0	15
Uyghur	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Uralic languages	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0
Hungarian	5	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0

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Symbol x

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Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Footnote 2

The category 'Total - Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single and multiple responses of the language spoken at home received in the census.

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Footnote 3

A single response to the language spoken at home occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 4

A multiple response to the language spoken at home occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 5

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.

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016345.

Date modified:: 2019-06-17

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