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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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 Bow River
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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 1 114,410 109,180 80 3,225 1,925
Single responses 112,275 107,245 80 3,045 1,905
Official languages 86,730 84,045 40 2,635 5
English 85,675 83,890 0 1,775 5
French 1,060 155 45 860 0
Non-official languages 25,545 23,200 30 410 1,895
Aboriginal languages 785 785 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 760 760 0 5 0
Blackfoot 715 710 0 5 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 45 45 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 5 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. 40 40 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 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 5 5 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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. 5 5 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Dakota 5 0 0 0 0
Stoney 10 5 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 24,755 22,420 35 410 1,900
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,690 1,455 5 55 180
Berber languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 10 0
Cushitic languages 1,000 850 0 10 130
Bilen 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 430 375 0 0 55
Somali 555 465 5 10 75
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 680 595 0 40 45
Amharic 120 110 0 5 5
Arabic 480 425 0 30 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 5 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 5
Harari 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 45 35 0 5 15
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 970 855 0 10 105
Khmer (Cambodian) 130 110 0 5 15
Vietnamese 845 745 0 10 90
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,165 2,145 0 10 15
Bikol 10 15 0 0 0
Cebuano 190 190 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 35 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 80 80 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,765 1,745 0 10 10
Waray-Waray 30 30 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 10 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 5
Tamil 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 18,140 16,450 10 220 1,465
Albanian 5 5 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 900 830 0 35 30
Baltic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 880 815 0 35 30
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 50 45 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 0 0 0 0
Croatian 140 140 0 0 0
Czech 40 35 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 185 175 0 5 0
Russian 140 125 0 5 10
Serbian 30 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 55 50 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 210 195 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 12,390 11,370 5 65 950
Afrikaans 100 100 0 0 0
Danish 120 115 0 0 0
Dutch 690 675 0 10 5
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 11,410 10,410 5 45 945
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Greek 30 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,155 2,790 0 50 315
Indo-Aryan languages 3,015 2,670 0 40 305
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 70 60 0 5 5
Hindi 220 210 0 5 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 20 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,240 1,950 0 20 265
Sindhi 40 40 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 380 350 0 10 20
Iranian languages 120 100 0 5 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 45 35 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 70 60 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,655 1,415 0 70 170
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 175 160 0 10 5
Portuguese 175 155 0 20 5
Romanian 65 60 0 5 0
Spanish 1,245 1,045 0 40 165
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 70 65 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 185 165 0 5 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 230 115 20 90 5
Akan (Twi) 10 15 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 5 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 0 20 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 85 30 10 45 5
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 65 35 10 15 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 190 185 0 0 5
Dinka 140 135 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 705 595 0 0 105
Chinese languages 695 585 5 0 105
Cantonese 265 235 0 5 25
Hakka 0 0 0 0 5
Mandarin 335 270 0 0 65
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 25 20 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 55 0 0 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 85 85 0 5 0
Lao 45 40 0 0 0
Thai 45 45 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 220 215 0 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 25 20 0 0 0
Hungarian 195 190 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 2,135 1,930 5 185 15
English and French 150 45 0 105 0
English and non-official language 1,900 1,860 0 25 15
French and non-official language 60 15 10 30 0
English, French and non-official language 30 15 0 20 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-X2016059.

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