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 Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest
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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}	41,135	4,105	3,890	33,145
Single responses	40,200	3,820	3,695	32,685
Official languages	32,725	1,315	3,255	28,155
English	31,575	1,260	3,180	27,130
French	1,150	50	70	1,025
Non-official languages	7,475	2,505	440	4,530
Aboriginal languages	4,565	10	80	4,480
Non-Aboriginal languages	2,910	2,495	365	50
Afro-Asiatic languages	220	195	25	0
Berber languages	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	20	15	0	0
Bilen	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	20	20	10	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	200	175	20	0
Amharic	25	30	0	0
Arabic	155	135	20	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	15	15	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	205	170	35	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	205	170	35	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	825	785	40	0
Bikol	10	10	0	0
Cebuano	70	70	10	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	10	10	0	0
Ilocano	60	60	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	10	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	670	635	35	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	35	35	0	0
Haitian Creole	10	10	10	0
Creole, n.o.s.	20	15	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	15	15	0	0
Dravidian languages	40	35	10	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	40	30	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	1,010	790	180	40
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Armenian	10	10	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	185	140	40	15
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	185	135	35	15
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	10	0	0
Croatian	20	20	0	0
Czech	10	0	0	0
Macedonian	15	15	0	0
Polish	45	25	15	0
Russian	25	25	0	0
Serbian	0	10	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0
Slovak	25	30	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	30	10	10	15
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	0	0	10
Scottish Gaelic	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	295	155	115	25
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0
Danish	10	0	0	0
Dutch	55	30	25	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	225	115	90	20
Icelandic	10	0	0	10
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	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	335	315	20	0
Indo-Aryan languages	285	275	15	0
Bengali	100	100	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0
Hindi	50	45	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	10	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	45	45	0	0
Sindhi	10	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	10	10	0	0
Urdu	65	60	10	0
Iranian languages	50	45	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	50	45	10	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	185	175	10	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	50	40	0	0
Portuguese	20	20	0	0
Romanian	0	10	0	0
Spanish	110	105	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	70	65	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	80	70	10	10
Mongolic languages	0	10	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	125	120	10	0
Akan (Twi)	20	15	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	10	10	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	50	45	10	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	35	35	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	10	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	230	190	40	0
Chinese languages	225	190	40	0
Cantonese	95	85	15	0
Hakka	10	0	0	0
Mandarin	70	60	10	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0	10	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	55	35	20	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	10	0	0	0
Lao	0	10	0	0
Thai	10	10	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	10	10	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	10	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	35	20	15	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0
Finnish	15	10	10	0
Hungarian	20	10	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	935	280	195	455
English and French	180	10	25	140
English and non-official language	690	245	150	290
French and non-official language	45	25	0	25
English, French and non-official language	20	10	15	10

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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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