Data tables, 2016 Census

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 The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Brossard, V
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Mother Tongue (263) Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 1 Single mother tongue responsesFootnote 2 Multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 3
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 4 84,480 80,465 4,015
Official languages 51,260 47,250 4,015
English 12,590 9,865 2,725
French 40,605 37,385 3,220
Non-official languages 35,975 33,215 2,765
Aboriginal languages 5 5 5
Algonquian languages 5 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 5 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 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 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 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. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 35,970 33,215 2,760
Afro-Asiatic languages 5,000 4,240 755
Berber languages 215 190 20
Kabyle 120 100 15
Berber languages, n.i.e. 95 90 5
Cushitic languages 5 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 4,775 4,040 735
Amharic 10 15 0
Arabic 4,740 4,010 735
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 15 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,735 1,650 80
Khmer (Cambodian) 160 155 5
Vietnamese 1,575 1,495 75
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 5 0
Austronesian languages 590 455 140
Bikol 0 5 0
Cebuano 15 20 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0
Ilocano 30 30 5
Malagasy 65 50 15
Malay 25 25 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 430 315 115
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Creole languages 1,300 1,015 285
Haitian Creole 40 25 10
Creole, n.o.s. 1,080 840 240
Creole languages, n.i.e. 185 145 40
Dravidian languages 285 245 40
Kannada 15 15 0
Malayalam 40 30 15
Tamil 180 170 10
Telugu 45 25 15
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 15,400 14,465 935
Albanian 60 55 5
Armenian 280 260 10
Balto-Slavic languages 1,795 1,740 55
Baltic languages 20 20 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 20 5
Slavic languages 1,780 1,720 55
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 5
Bulgarian 370 360 10
Croatian 40 35 5
Czech 35 35 5
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 330 315 10
Russian 790 765 25
Serbian 45 45 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0
Slovak 20 25 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 35 0
Ukrainian 80 80 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Germanic languages 280 250 25
Afrikaans 5 0 0
Danish 5 5 0
Dutch 40 35 5
Frisian 0 0 0
German 210 190 20
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 10 0
Yiddish 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 1,340 1,255 85
Indo-Iranian languages 4,225 3,870 360
Indo-Aryan languages 2,080 1,815 265
Bengali 425 385 40
Gujarati 185 165 20
Hindi 270 220 50
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0
Marathi 15 15 0
Nepali 5 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 430 395 35
Sindhi 30 15 15
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 20 0
Urdu 680 580 100
Iranian languages 2,120 2,035 90
Kurdish 5 5 0
Pashto 20 20 0
Persian (Farsi) 2,095 2,010 95
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0
Italic (Romance) languages 7,420 7,025 395
Catalan 5 5 0
Italian 770 725 50
Portuguese 945 900 50
Romanian 1,330 1,295 35
Spanish 4,360 4,100 260
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0
Japanese 75 65 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 235 225 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 385 330 55
Akan (Twi) 5 5 5
Bamanankan 25 20 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 25 20 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 30 25 5
Ga 5 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 15 10 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 50 50 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 20 20 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 65 55 5
Wolof 60 40 20
Yoruba 5 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 70 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0
Sign languages 20 10 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 10 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 10,515 10,100 415
Chinese languages 10,505 10,095 410
Cantonese 5,150 4,935 215
Hakka 120 115 0
Mandarin 4,555 4,370 185
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 255 250 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 160 155 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 265 260 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 5
Burmese 10 5 5
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages 115 110 5
Lao 100 95 5
Thai 15 10 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 170 165 5
Azerbaijani 25 20 0
Turkish 145 140 5
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Uralic languages 125 120 5
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0
Hungarian 120 115 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 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.

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Footnote 2

A single mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 3

A multiple mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 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.

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016060.

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