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Detailed Mother Tongue (186), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2001 and 2006 Censuses - 20% Sample Data

About this variable: Detailed mother tongue (186)

Definition

Mother tongue

Part A - Plain language definition
Not applicable

Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.

Values

  1. Total - Detailed mother tongue
  2. Single responses
  3. English
  4. French
  5. Non-official languages
  6. Aboriginal languages
  7. Algonquian languages
  8. Algonquin
  9. Atikamekw
  10. Blackfoot
  11. Cree
  12. Malecite
  13. Mi'kmaq
  14. Montagnais-Naskapi
  15. Ojibway
  16. Oji-Cree
  17. Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
  18. Athapaskan languages
  19. Carrier
  20. Chilcotin
  21. Chipewyan
  22. Dene
  23. Dogrib
  24. Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
  25. North Slave (Hare)
  26. South Slave
  27. Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
  28. Haida
  29. Iroquoian languages
  30. Mohawk
  31. Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
  32. Kutenai
  33. Salish languages
  34. Shuswap
  35. Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
  36. Salish languages, n.i.e.
  37. Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
  38. Tlingit
  39. Tsimshian languages
  40. Gitksan
  41. Nisga'a
  42. Tsimshian
  43. Wakashan languages
  44. Nootka
  45. Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
  46. Inuktitut
  47. Inuinnaqtun
  48. Inuktitut, n.i.e.
  49. Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
  50. Romance languages
  51. Italian
  52. Portuguese
  53. Romanian
  54. Spanish
  55. Romance languages, n.i.e.
  56. Germanic languages
  57. Dutch
  58. Flemish
  59. Frisian
  60. German
  61. Yiddish
  62. Scandinavian languages
  63. Danish
  64. Icelandic
  65. Norwegian
  66. Swedish
  67. Germanic languages, n.i.e.
  68. Celtic languages
  69. Gaelic languages
  70. Welsh
  71. Celtic languages, n.i.e.
  72. Slavic languages
  73. Belarusian (Byelorussian)
  74. Bosnian
  75. Bulgarian
  76. Croatian
  77. Czech
  78. Macedonian
  79. Polish
  80. Russian
  81. Serbian
  82. Serbo-Croatian
  83. Slovak
  84. Slovenian
  85. Ukrainian
  86. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  87. Baltic languages
  88. Latvian
  89. Lithuanian
  90. Finno-Ugric languages
  91. Estonian
  92. Finnish
  93. Hungarian
  94. Greek
  95. Armenian
  96. Turkic languages
  97. Azerbaijani
  98. Turkish
  99. Turkic languages, n.i.e.
  100. Afro-Asiatic languages
  101. Berber languages (Kabyle)
  102. Cushitic languages
  103. Oromo
  104. Somali
  105. Semitic languages
  106. Amharic
  107. Arabic
  108. Hebrew
  109. Maltese
  110. Tigrigna
  111. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  112. Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
  113. Indo-Iranian languages
  114. Indo-Aryan languages
  115. Bengali
  116. Gujarati
  117. Hindi
  118. Konkani
  119. Marathi
  120. Panjabi (Punjabi)
  121. Sindhi
  122. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
  123. Urdu
  124. Iranian languages
  125. Kurdish
  126. Pashto
  127. Persian (Farsi)
  128. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  129. Dravidian languages
  130. Kannada
  131. Malayalam
  132. Tamil
  133. Telugu
  134. Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
  135. Japanese
  136. Korean
  137. Sino-Tibetan languages
  138. Chinese languages
  139. Cantonese
  140. Chaochow (Teochow)
  141. Fukien
  142. Hakka
  143. Mandarin
  144. Shanghainese
  145. Taiwanese
  146. Chinese, n.o.s. Footnote 146
  147. Tibetan languages
  148. Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
  149. Tai languages
  150. Lao
  151. Thai
  152. Austro-Asiatic languages
  153. Khmer (Cambodian)
  154. Vietnamese
  155. Malayo-Polynesian languages
  156. Bisayan languages
  157. Ilocano
  158. Malay
  159. Pampango
  160. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
  161. Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
  162. Niger-Congo languages
  163. Akan (Twi)
  164. Bantu languages
  165. Lingala
  166. Rundi (Kirundi)
  167. Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
  168. Shona
  169. Swahili
  170. Bantu languages, n.i.e.
  171. Edo
  172. Igbo
  173. Wolof
  174. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  175. African languages, n.i.e.
  176. Creoles
  177. Non-verbal languages
  178. American Sign Language
  179. Quebec Sign Language
  180. Sign languages, n.i.e.
  181. Other languages
  182. Multiple responses
  183. English and French
  184. English and non-official language
  185. French and non-official language
  186. English, French and non-official language

Footnotes

Footnote 146

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.'

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