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 Peterborough, CY
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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 79,235 78,595 645
Official languages 74,240 73,595 645
English 73,335 72,700 630
French 1,130 895 235
Non-official languages 5,425 4,995 435
Aboriginal languages 60 40 20
Algonquian languages 50 35 10
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 10 5
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 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 5
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 35 20 15
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 35 20 15
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 5 5 5
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 5
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) 5 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 5 5 5
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 5
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 5,370 4,955 415
Afro-Asiatic languages 310 285 25
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 25 20 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 285 260 20
Amharic 10 10 0
Arabic 250 235 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 10 0
Maltese 10 10 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 195 185 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 60 5
Vietnamese 130 120 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 220 195 25
Bikol 5 5 0
Cebuano 35 30 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0
Ilocano 15 15 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 155 135 20
Waray-Waray 0 5 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Dravidian languages 165 145 20
Kannada 5 10 5
Malayalam 35 40 0
Tamil 80 65 15
Telugu 35 30 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,405 3,155 250
Albanian 75 70 0
Armenian 5 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 675 635 45
Baltic languages 25 25 0
Latvian 10 10 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0
Slavic languages 655 615 45
Belarusan 5 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0
Croatian 20 15 0
Czech 50 50 5
Macedonian 10 10 0
Polish 350 325 25
Russian 95 85 10
Serbian 20 15 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0
Slovak 15 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 10 0
Ukrainian 60 50 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 10 0
Welsh 10 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 915 875 40
Afrikaans 10 10 0
Danish 25 25 0
Dutch 335 320 15
Frisian 10 5 0
German 495 480 20
Icelandic 0 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0
Swedish 15 20 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 10 5
Yiddish 5 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 95 85 10
Indo-Iranian languages 865 775 90
Indo-Aryan languages 700 625 75
Bengali 75 60 10
Gujarati 200 190 10
Hindi 110 90 15
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 15 10 5
Marathi 10 5 5
Nepali 10 10 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 140 130 5
Sindhi 10 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0
Urdu 125 110 15
Iranian languages 160 145 15
Kurdish 5 5 0
Pashto 25 25 0
Persian (Farsi) 120 110 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 760 700 65
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 290 260 25
Portuguese 85 80 5
Romanian 55 50 0
Spanish 335 305 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 30 25 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 175 160 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 55 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 5
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 15 15 0
Swahili 15 10 0
Wolof 5 0 0
Yoruba 15 15 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0
Dinka 5 5 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Sign languages 55 30 25
American Sign Language 30 15 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 15 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 560 540 20
Chinese languages 540 515 25
Cantonese 165 160 10
Hakka 5 0 0
Mandarin 300 290 10
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 40 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 20 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 25 20 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages 15 15 0
Lao 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 10 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 140 135 10
Estonian 15 15 0
Finnish 35 35 0
Hungarian 85 80 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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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