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 Grey
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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 92,560 86,730 25 5,255 550
Single responses 92,055 86,355 25 5,130 545
Official languages 85,400 80,510 25 4,845 20
English 84,580 80,410 5 4,145 15
French 820 105 15 700 0
Non-official languages 6,655 5,845 0 285 525
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 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 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 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 0 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 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 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 6,645 5,835 5 285 530
Afro-Asiatic languages 105 75 0 5 25
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 0 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages 100 70 5 5 20
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 75 45 0 5 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 85 85 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 45 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 15 15 0 0 5
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 5,895 5,170 0 255 475
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 700 645 0 45 10
Baltic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Latvian 30 25 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages 655 605 0 40 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 70 60 0 5 5
Czech 80 80 0 5 0
Macedonian 20 10 0 0 0
Polish 215 200 0 10 0
Russian 70 65 0 0 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 30 30 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 85 70 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,300 3,760 0 130 410
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0 0
Danish 60 65 0 0 0
Dutch 905 835 0 35 30
Frisian 15 10 0 5 0
German 3,255 2,795 0 75 375
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 65 55 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 205 175 0 15 20
Indo-Aryan languages 170 145 0 5 15
Bengali 10 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 20 0 0 10
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 65 60 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 20 20 0 0 5
Iranian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 600 520 0 50 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 220 200 0 15 10
Portuguese 175 160 0 5 10
Romanian 40 25 0 10 0
Spanish 160 135 0 15 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 90 85 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 15 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 130 105 0 0 15
Chinese languages 125 105 0 5 15
Cantonese 65 60 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 30 0 5 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 5 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 220 200 5 15 5
Estonian 35 30 0 0 5
Finnish 60 50 0 10 0
Hungarian 125 115 0 10 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 505 375 0 125 0
English and French 145 50 0 100 0
English and non-official language 340 325 0 20 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0

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Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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