Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Kelowna, CY
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Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 125,970 116,100 45 9,100 720
Single responses 124,520 114,980 40 8,790 710
Official languages 108,545 100,405 35 8,085 25
English 106,510 100,170 5 6,310 30
French 2,035 230 30 1,775 0
Non-official languages 15,975 14,580 5 700 685
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 5 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 15,945 14,550 5 700 685
Afro-Asiatic languages 330 225 0 35 65
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 320 220 0 35 65
Amharic 15 20 0 0 0
Arabic 270 170 0 30 65
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 5 0
Maltese 15 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 235 200 0 10 30
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 225 190 0 10 25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,065 1,035 0 20 15
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 60 0 0 5
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 65 60 0 5 0
Malagasy 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 40 40 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 865 830 0 20 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 20 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 45 0 0 0
Kannada 5 0 0 5 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 5
Tamil 20 20 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 11,525 10,590 5 555 375
Albanian 25 20 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,495 2,350 0 105 40
Baltic languages 35 35 0 0 0
Latvian 15 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,460 2,310 0 105 45
Belarusan 10 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 40 40 0 0 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5 0
Croatian 220 210 0 10 0
Czech 180 165 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 480 450 0 35 5
Russian 545 510 0 20 20
Serbian 135 130 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 40 40 0 0 0
Slovak 75 75 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 60 55 0 5 0
Ukrainian 620 590 0 15 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,470 4,240 0 210 20
Afrikaans 115 110 0 5 0
Danish 105 105 0 0 0
Dutch 610 555 0 50 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 3,510 3,345 0 145 20
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 50 50 0 0 0
Swedish 55 50 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 95 85 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,535 2,225 0 50 250
Indo-Aryan languages 2,210 1,935 0 35 240
Bengali 105 95 0 0 5
Gujarati 40 35 0 5 0
Hindi 175 170 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0
Nepali 30 25 0 5 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,750 1,500 5 20 220
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 0 0 0
Urdu 75 70 0 5 0
Iranian languages 320 290 0 20 15
Kurdish 15 20 0 0 0
Pashto 5 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 295 265 0 15 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,895 1,650 5 185 55
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 650 575 0 65 10
Portuguese 280 245 0 30 10
Romanian 175 150 0 20 10
Spanish 780 680 0 70 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 300 285 0 10 10
Kartvelian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Georgian 10 5 0 0 0
Korean 395 345 0 0 45
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 45 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 10 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 5 0
Swahili 10 10 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 25 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,240 1,080 0 20 135
Chinese languages 1,230 1,080 5 20 135
Cantonese 430 365 0 10 55
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 650 585 0 10 55
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 45 35 0 0 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 80 0 0 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 75 75 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 70 70 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 35 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 5 0
Uyghur 5 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 565 530 0 35 5
Estonian 10 10 0 5 0
Finnish 110 110 0 0 0
Hungarian 445 410 5 30 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,445 1,125 0 310 5
English and French 275 65 0 210 0
English and non-official language 1,110 1,045 0 60 10
French and non-official language 45 10 5 30 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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