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 St. Catharines, 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 1 130,625 120,150 105 9,400 975
Single responses 128,590 118,660 100 8,860 965
Official languages 107,530 99,650 70 7,795 20
English 104,760 99,395 5 5,345 20
French 2,770 255 70 2,450 0
Non-official languages 21,060 19,015 35 1,070 945
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 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 0 0 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. 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 10 5 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 5 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 5 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 21,040 18,995 35 1,065 945
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,555 1,295 5 145 110
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 40 40 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 35 30 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,510 1,255 5 140 110
Amharic 30 30 0 0 0
Arabic 1,365 1,125 5 135 100
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 20 20 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 5 0
Maltese 30 25 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 375 310 0 20 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 115 0 10 5
Vietnamese 235 195 0 5 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 820 805 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 25 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 60 60 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 700 685 0 10 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 40 15 10 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 30 10 5 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 155 155 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 80 85 0 0 0
Tamil 45 40 0 0 0
Telugu 25 25 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 14,185 12,905 15 735 530
Albanian 120 120 5 0 0
Armenian 175 150 0 20 10
Balto-Slavic languages 4,100 3,750 0 190 150
Baltic languages 105 95 0 5 5
Latvian 55 45 0 5 0
Lithuanian 55 50 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,995 3,655 0 190 150
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 140 130 0 0 5
Bulgarian 70 55 0 15 0
Croatian 210 205 0 5 0
Czech 135 130 0 5 5
Macedonian 40 35 0 0 5
Polish 1,760 1,615 0 65 85
Russian 480 420 0 35 25
Serbian 120 110 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 30 30 0 5 0
Slovak 140 135 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 150 145 0 0 0
Ukrainian 700 640 0 50 10
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 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 3,460 3,315 0 125 15
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 50 45 0 0 0
Dutch 1,100 1,060 0 40 0
Frisian 20 25 0 0 0
German 2,200 2,110 0 75 15
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 5 0
Swedish 25 20 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 15 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 290 255 0 15 15
Indo-Iranian languages 1,250 1,150 0 40 50
Indo-Aryan languages 875 820 0 20 25
Bengali 105 100 0 5 0
Gujarati 135 115 0 5 15
Hindi 120 115 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 105 100 0 0 5
Sindhi 10 10 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 5 0
Urdu 320 310 0 5 5
Iranian languages 375 335 0 20 25
Kurdish 150 125 0 10 20
Pashto 25 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 200 180 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,780 4,150 10 335 280
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 2,270 2,030 10 110 120
Portuguese 275 235 0 30 5
Romanian 145 110 0 25 5
Spanish 2,080 1,765 5 170 140
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Japanese 75 75 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 475 430 0 15 35
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 305 245 0 50 5
Akan (Twi) 40 40 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 80 75 0 0 0
Swahili 70 50 0 15 5
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 35 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,230 2,010 0 40 180
Chinese languages 2,225 2,005 0 40 180
Cantonese 370 320 0 10 40
Hakka 10 5 0 5 0
Mandarin 1,685 1,525 0 25 130
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 25 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 115 110 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 0 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 0 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 225 195 0 5 25
Lao 200 175 0 5 25
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 95 85 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 75 70 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 5 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 450 425 0 20 5
Estonian 55 55 0 5 0
Finnish 55 50 0 5 0
Hungarian 345 320 0 20 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,035 1,485 5 535 10
English and French 425 100 0 330 0
English and non-official language 1,475 1,370 0 100 5
French and non-official language 80 10 5 60 0
English, French and non-official language 50 5 0 45 0

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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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