Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Generation Status (4), Number of Languages known (11), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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Number of languages known (11)^{Footnote 1}

Age (12)

Sex (3)

This table details mother tongue , generation status , number of languages known , age and sex for the population in private households in Lachute
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Mother tongue (187)	Generation status (4)
Mother tongue (187)	Total - Generation status^Footnote 2	First generation^Footnote 3	Second generation^Footnote 4	Third generation or more^Footnote 5
Total - Mother tongue^{Footnote 6}	12,400	310	455	11,645
Single responses	12,285	310	435	11,540
Official languages	12,170	225	405	11,540
English	1,350	100	140	1,110
French	10,820	125	270	10,425
Non-official languages	115	90	25	0
Aboriginal languages	0	0	0	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	115	85	30	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0
Berber languages	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0
Bilen	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	0	0	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	0	0	0	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	0	0	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	0	0	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	0	0	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	0	10	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	95	75	20	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Armenian	10	10	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	10	0	10	0
Baltic languages	10	0	10	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	0	0	10	0
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	0	0	10	0
Russian	0	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	10	0	0	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0
Dutch	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	10	10	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Greek	15	0	10	0
Indo-Iranian languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	0	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	65	60	10	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	10	10	0	0
Portuguese	15	10	0	0
Romanian	0	0	0	0
Spanish	45	45	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	0	0	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	0	0	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Sign languages	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	0	10	0	0
Chinese languages	0	0	0	0
Cantonese	0	10	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	0	0	0	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0	0	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	15	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	15	0	10	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	120	0	15	105
English and French	120	0	15	105
English and non-official language	0	0	0	0
French and non-official language	10	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

'Knowledge of official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

'Knowledge of non-official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in a language other than English or French. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. The number of languages that can be reported may vary between surveys, depending on the objectives of the survey.

For more information on language variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

For more information on generation status variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 3

'First generation' includes persons who were born outside Canada. For the most part, these are people who are now, or once were, immigrants to Canada.

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Footnote 4

'Second generation' includes persons who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada. For the most part, these are the children of immigrants.

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