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 Thunder Bay
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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}	118,880	11,725	22,695	84,465
Single responses	117,350	11,385	22,175	83,785
Official languages	104,730	3,460	18,845	82,425
English	102,135	3,375	18,700	80,060
French	2,595	85	145	2,365
Non-official languages	12,620	7,930	3,330	1,365
Aboriginal languages	1,030	10	10	1,010
Non-Aboriginal languages	11,590	7,920	3,320	350
Afro-Asiatic languages	295	275	20	0
Berber languages	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	10	0	0
Cushitic languages	10	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	280	260	20	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	270	250	15	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	10	10	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	85	75	10	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	80	70	10	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	210	210	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	10	0	0	0
Ilocano	10	10	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Malay	25	25	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	165	165	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	10	0	0	0
Creole languages	30	30	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	30	30	0	0
Dravidian languages	85	85	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	50	50	0	0
Tamil	30	30	0	0
Telugu	10	10	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	7,770	5,275	2,340	150
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Armenian	10	0	0	10
Balto-Slavic languages	2,200	1,285	835	85
Baltic languages	25	20	10	0
Latvian	0	10	0	0
Lithuanian	15	10	10	0
Slavic languages	2,180	1,270	825	85
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	250	170	80	0
Czech	45	45	10	0
Macedonian	0	0	10	0
Polish	950	700	245	0
Russian	85	60	20	0
Serbian	55	50	10	0
Serbo-Croatian	10	10	0	0
Slovak	165	80	80	10
Slovene (Slovenian)	80	50	25	0
Ukrainian	525	95	355	80
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	10	15	0	0
Celtic languages	10	15	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	0	0	0	0
Welsh	15	15	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	1,085	780	290	15
Afrikaans	20	15	0	0
Danish	40	35	10	0
Dutch	295	210	80	0
Frisian	15	15	10	0
German	645	470	165	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	15	10	0	10
Swedish	45	25	20	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	10	10	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Greek	90	65	25	0
Indo-Iranian languages	675	610	65	0
Indo-Aryan languages	490	430	55	0
Bengali	155	125	25	0
Gujarati	50	50	0	0
Hindi	70	75	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	15	15	0	0
Nepali	40	40	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	15	20	10	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	10	10	0	0
Urdu	135	105	30	0
Iranian languages	185	185	10	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	10	10	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	170	170	10	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	3,700	2,525	1,130	40
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	2,990	1,955	990	45
Portuguese	370	255	115	0
Romanian	20	20	0	0
Spanish	305	290	15	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	15	0	10	0
Japanese	10	10	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	145	135	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	95	90	10	0
Akan (Twi)	30	20	10	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	10	10	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	10	10	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0
Wolof	10	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	25	30	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	35	0	10	20
American Sign Language	20	10	10	10
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	15	0	0	10
Sino-Tibetan languages	760	675	85	10
Chinese languages	495	410	70	10
Cantonese	175	130	40	10
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	260	240	20	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	25	25	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	30	20	10	0
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	270	260	10	0
Burmese	25	25	0	0
Karenic languages	240	230	10	0
Tibetan	10	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	10	10	0	0
Lao	0	10	0	0
Thai	0	10	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	10	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	2,050	1,035	845	170
Estonian	25	15	10	0
Finnish	1,880	920	790	175
Hungarian	150	95	50	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0
Multiple responses	1,530	335	520	675
English and French	315	0	35	280
English and non-official language	1,175	305	480	390
French and non-official language	20	20	0	0
English, French and non-official language	20	10	10	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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