Mother Tongue (263), Single and Multiple Mother Tongue Responses (3), Age (7) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data Geography = Waterloo Global non-response rate (GNR) = 3.6 % Age (7) = Total - Age Sex (3) = Total - Sex Mother Tongue (263) Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses [1] Single mother tongue responses [2] Multiple mother tongue responses [3] Total - Mother tongue [4] 529425 519350 10075 Official languages 405435 395355 10075 English 399260 389410 9845 French 7655 5940 1715 Non-official languages 132815 123990 8825 Aboriginal languages 40 30 5 Algonquian languages 25 15 5 Blackfoot 0 0 0 Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 0 Atikamekw 0 0 0 Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 Moose Cree 0 0 0 Naskapi 0 0 0 Northern East Cree 0 0 0 Plains Cree 0 0 0 Southern East Cree 0 0 0 Swampy Cree 5 5 0 Woods Cree 0 0 0 Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0 Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 Malecite 0 0 0 Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 5 5 Algonquin 0 0 0 Ojibway 15 10 5 Oji-Cree 0 0 0 Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 Athabaskan languages 5 0 0 Northern Athabaskan languages 5 0 0 Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 Beaver 0 0 0 Carrier 0 0 0 Chilcotin 0 0 0 Dene 0 0 0 Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 Gwich'in 0 0 0 Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 Sekani 0 0 0 Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 South Slavey 0 0 0 Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 Tahltan languages 0 0 0 Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 Tahltan 0 0 0 Tutchone languages 0 0 0 Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 Haida 0 0 0 Inuit languages 5 0 0 Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 Inuktitut 0 0 0 Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 Iroquoian languages 5 5 5 Cayuga 0 0 0 Mohawk 10 5 0 Oneida 0 0 0 Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 Kutenai 0 0 0 Michif 0 0 0 Salish languages 0 0 0 Comox 0 0 0 Halkomelem 0 0 0 Lillooet 0 0 0 Okanagan 0 0 0 Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 Squamish 0 0 0 Straits 0 0 0 Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 Siouan languages 0 0 0 Dakota 0 0 0 Stoney 0 0 0 Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 Tlingit 0 0 0 Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 Nisga'a 0 0 0 Tsimshian 0 0 0 Wakashan languages 0 0 0 Haisla 0 0 0 Heiltsuk 0 0 0 Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 5 0 Non-Aboriginal languages 132780 123960 8820 Afro-Asiatic languages 10810 9930 885 Berber languages 25 25 5 Kabyle 25 20 0 Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 Cushitic languages 1285 1210 75 Bilen 100 95 0 Oromo 85 85 0 Somali 1060 990 75 Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 35 40 0 Semitic languages 9495 8685 810 Amharic 850 795 50 Arabic 7205 6555 650 Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 305 285 25 Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 35 35 0 Harari 15 15 0 Hebrew 120 115 10 Maltese 80 60 15 Tigrigna 835 780 55 Semitic languages, n.i.e. 45 40 5 Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 Austro-Asiatic languages 4180 3955 225 Khmer (Cambodian) 280 265 15 Vietnamese 3900 3685 210 Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 Austronesian languages 2550 2215 335 Bikol 10 15 0 Cebuano 115 110 5 Fijian 0 0 0 Hiligaynon 50 45 5 Ilocano 125 115 5 Malagasy 5 5 0 Malay 190 170 25 Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 Pangasinan 0 5 0 Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2000 1710 295 Waray-Waray 5 5 0 Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 5 Creole languages 250 155 95 Haitian Creole 10 5 5 Creole, n.o.s. 150 80 65 Creole languages, n.i.e. 100 70 30 Dravidian languages 2055 1775 285 Kannada 110 90 25 Malayalam 705 620 85 Tamil 850 735 115 Telugu 375 320 60 Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 5 Hmong-Mien languages 600 485 115 Indo-European languages 90510 84715 5795 Albanian 1075 985 85 Armenian 690 645 40 Balto-Slavic languages 19320 18400 920 Baltic languages 170 165 5 Latvian 85 85 0 Lithuanian 90 90 0 Slavic languages 19150 18235 920 Belarusan 15 15 0 Bosnian 565 535 35 Bulgarian 155 145 5 Croatian 2215 2090 120 Czech 770 740 35 Macedonian 265 255 5 Polish 5550 5270 285 Russian 1855 1775 80 Serbian 5300 5070 235 Serbo-Croatian 535 515 20 Slovak 600 570 30 Slovene (Slovenian) 270 255 10 Ukrainian 835 780 55 Slavic languages, n.i.e. 220 210 10 Celtic languages 50 30 20 Scottish Gaelic 20 10 15 Welsh 20 15 0 Celtic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 Germanic languages 18690 18000 690 Afrikaans 115 110 5 Danish 185 180 10 Dutch 2195 2095 100 Frisian 35 30 5 German 15950 15400 550 Icelandic 5 5 5 Norwegian 35 30 5 Swedish 80 75 5 Vlaams (Flemish) 70 65 5 Yiddish 10 5 0 Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 5 Greek 1465 1330 135 Indo-Iranian languages 21800 19610 2190 Indo-Aryan languages 16065 14205 1865 Bengali 1060 915 140 Gujarati 3095 2775 320 Hindi 1870 1565 310 Kashmiri 5 5 0 Konkani 55 45 10 Marathi 190 155 35 Nepali 265 255 15 Oriya (Odia) 20 20 0 Punjabi (Panjabi) 5215 4745 475 Sindhi 260 235 20 Sinhala (Sinhalese) 290 250 40 Urdu 3740 3240 500 Iranian languages 5505 5195 315 Kurdish 680 635 45 Pashto 1100 1020 75 Persian (Farsi) 3725 3540 190 Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 225 210 15 Italic (Romance) languages 27420 25705 1715 Catalan 15 15 0 Italian 2125 1915 215 Portuguese 10445 9780 670 Romanian 5780 5560 220 Spanish 9045 8435 615 Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 Japanese 450 425 25 Kartvelian languages 5 5 5 Georgian 10 5 5 Korean 2195 2090 105 Mongolic languages 5 10 0 Mongolian 10 10 0 Niger-Congo languages 815 660 155 Akan (Twi) 95 65 25 Bamanankan 0 0 0 Edo 15 10 5 Ewe 30 20 10 Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 Ga 15 5 5 Ganda 15 10 5 Igbo 50 30 20 Lingala 5 0 0 Rundi (Kirundi) 20 20 0 Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 35 35 0 Shona 110 90 15 Swahili 170 140 30 Wolof 10 10 0 Yoruba 100 75 20 Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 150 140 15 Nilo-Saharan languages 310 285 25 Dinka 5 5 0 Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 305 280 25 Sign languages 180 120 55 American Sign Language 100 70 30 Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 Sign languages, n.i.e 80 55 30 Sino-Tibetan languages 13520 13055 460 Chinese languages 13125 12685 440 Cantonese 2360 2200 155 Hakka 80 80 5 Mandarin 9650 9400 255 Min Dong 5 5 0 Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 260 240 10 Wu (Shanghainese) 105 105 5 Chinese, n.o.s. 650 640 10 Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 Tibeto-Burman languages 400 375 25 Burmese 150 140 10 Karenic languages 130 125 5 Tibetan 5 10 5 Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 115 105 10 Tai-Kadai languages 1245 1150 95 Lao 1115 1025 90 Thai 130 125 5 Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 Turkic languages 985 910 75 Azerbaijani 70 70 5 Turkish 860 785 75 Uyghur 15 15 0 Uzbek 15 15 0 Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 Uralic languages 2025 1955 70 Estonian 100 100 5 Finnish 155 150 5 Hungarian 1770 1710 60 Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 Other languages, n.i.e. 75 60 15 Note [1] The category 'Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single mother tongue responses and multiple mother tongue responses received in the census. [2] A single mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides one language only. [3] A multiple mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages. [4] This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census. [4] n.i.e. = not included elsewhere n.o.s. = not otherwise specified Source: Statistics Canada - 2016 Census. Catalogue Number 98-400-X2016060.