Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (8), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (187), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (6), Age (8B) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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This table details mother tongue , language spoken most often at home , other language spoken regularly at home , generation status , age and sex for the population in private households in Truro
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Language spoken most often at home (187) Mother tongue (8)
Total - Mother tongue English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 2 44,900 43,170 415 1,155 65 85 10 10
Single responses 44,640 43,120 415 975 55 55 0 10
Official languages 44,235 43,095 415 610 55 55 0 0
English 44,120 43,070 325 610 55 55 10 0
French 115 20 90 0 10 0 0 0
Non-official languages 400 30 0 365 0 0 0 10
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 395 30 0 360 0 0 0 10
Afro-Asiatic languages 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 60 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 0 0 55 0 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 205 10 0 200 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russian 20 0 0 15 0 0 0 0
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 40 0 0 35 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 90 10 0 85 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 85 10 0 75 0 0 0 0
Bengali 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 40 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 30 10 0 25 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spanish 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 70 0 0 70 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages 70 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 20 0 0 25 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 0 0 40 0 0 0 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 265 45 0 175 0 30 0 0
English and French 25 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 240 35 0 180 0 30 0 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For more information on generation status variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

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-X2016196.

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