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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
- Total - Detailed mother tongue
- Single responses
- English
- French
- Non-official languages
- Aboriginal languages
- Algonquian languages
- Algonquin
- Atikamekw
- Blackfoot
- Cree
- Malecite
- Mi'kmaq
- Montagnais-Naskapi
- Ojibway
- Oji-Cree
- Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
- Athapaskan languages
- Carrier
- Chilcotin
- Chipewyan
- Dene
- Dogrib
- Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
- North Slave (Hare)
- South Slave
- Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
- Haida
- Iroquoian languages
- Mohawk
- Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
- Kutenai
- Salish languages
- Shuswap
- Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
- Salish languages, n.i.e.
- Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
- Tlingit
- Tsimshian languages
- Gitksan
- Nisga'a
- Tsimshian
- Wakashan languages
- Nootka
- Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
- Inuktitut
- Inuinnaqtun
- Inuktitut, n.i.e.
- Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
- Romance languages
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Romance languages, n.i.e.
- Germanic languages
- Dutch
- Flemish
- Frisian
- German
- Yiddish
- Scandinavian languages
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Celtic languages
- Gaelic languages
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Slavic languages
- Belarusian (Byelorussian)
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Baltic languages
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Finno-Ugric languages
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Armenian
- Turkic languages
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- Berber languages (Kabyle)
- Cushitic languages
- Oromo
- Somali
- Semitic languages
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Panjabi (Punjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Iranian languages
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Dravidian languages
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Korean
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Chinese languages
- Cantonese
- Chaochow (Teochow)
- Fukien
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Shanghainese
- Taiwanese
- Chinese, n.o.s. Footnote 146
- Tibetan languages
- Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
- Tai languages
- Lao
- Thai
- Austro-Asiatic languages
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Malayo-Polynesian languages
- Bisayan languages
- Ilocano
- Malay
- Pampango
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
- Niger-Congo languages
- Akan (Twi)
- Bantu languages
- 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
- Non-verbal languages
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages
- Multiple responses
- English and French
- English and non-official language
- French and non-official language
- English, French and non-official language
Footnotes
- Footnote 146
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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.'