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Various Languages Spoken (147), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data
About this variable: Various languages spoken (147)
Definition
Knowledge of Official Languages
Part A - Plain language definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the ability to conduct a conversation in English only, in French only, in both English and French, or in neither English nor French.
Knowledge of non-official languages
Part A - Plain language definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to languages, other than English or French, in which the respondent can conduct a conversation.
Values
- English
- French
- Algonquin
- Atikamekw
- Blackfoot
- Cree
- Malecite
- Mi'kmaq
- Montagnais-Naskapi
- Ojibway
- Oji-Cree
- Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
- Carrier
- Chilcotin
- Chipewyan
- Dene
- Dogrib
- Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
- North Slave (Hare)
- South Slave
- Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
- Haida
- Mohawk
- Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
- Kutenai
- Shuswap
- Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
- Salish languages, n.i.e.
- Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
- Tlingit
- Gitksan
- Nisga'a
- Tsimshian
- Nootka
- Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
- Inuinnaqtun
- Inuktitut, n.i.e.
- Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Romance languages, n.i.e.
- Dutch
- Flemish
- Frisian
- German
- Yiddish
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Gaelic languages
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Belarusian (Byelorussian)
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Berber languages (Kabyle)
- Oromo
- Somali
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Panjabi (Punjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Korean
- Cantonese
- Chaochow (Teochow)
- Fukien
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Shanghainese
- Taiwanese
- Chinese, n.o.s. Footnote 118
- Tibetan languages
- Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
- Lao
- Thai
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Bisayan languages
- Ilocano
- Malay
- Pampango
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
- Akan (Twi)
- Lingala
- Rundi (Kirundi)
- Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
- Shona
- Swahili
- Bantu languages, n.i.e.
- Edo
- Igbo
- Wolof
- Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
- African languages, n.i.e.
- Creoles
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages
Footnotes
- Footnote 118
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The 2006 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' includes responses of 'Chinese' as well as all Chinese languages other than Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Hakka and Shanghainese. Data for the 'Chinese, n.o.s.' category in 2001 and 2006 are not directly comparable. The 2001 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' is equivalent to the sum of the 2006 categories 'Chinese, n.o.s.' and 'Chaochow (Teochow),' 'Fukien,' 'Shanghainese' and Taiwanese.'