Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Generation Status (4), Number of Languages known (11), Age (12) 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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Number of languages known (11)^{Footnote 1}

Age (12)

Sex (3)

This table details mother tongue , generation status , number of languages known , age and sex for the population in private households in Sept-Îles
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Mother tongue (187)	Generation status (4)
Mother tongue (187)	Total - Generation status^Footnote 2	First generation^Footnote 3	Second generation^Footnote 4	Third generation or more^Footnote 5
Total - Mother tongue^{Footnote 6}	28,070	565	545	26,960
Single responses	27,695	545	530	26,625
Official languages	24,670	265	450	23,955
English	790	30	55	700
French	23,880	235	390	23,250
Non-official languages	3,030	280	80	2,665
Aboriginal languages	2,665	0	10	2,655
Non-Aboriginal languages	370	285	70	15
Afro-Asiatic languages	70	70	0	0
Berber languages	15	15	0	0
Kabyle	10	15	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	10	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0
Bilen	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	55	60	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	55	55	0	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	10	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	10	10	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	10	10	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	0	0	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	10	10	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	10	10	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	235	160	75	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	15	15	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	20	15	0	0
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	10	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	0	0	0	0
Russian	0	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	10	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	15	15	10	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0
Dutch	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	20	15	10	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Greek	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	0	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	205	135	65	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	135	85	50	0
Portuguese	10	10	0	0
Romanian	15	15	0	0
Spanish	50	30	15	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	0	0	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	0	0	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	20	15	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	10	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	10	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0
Yoruba	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Sign languages	10	0	0	10
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	10	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	10	0	0	10
Sino-Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages	0	0	0	0
Cantonese	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	0	0	0	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0	0	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	10	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	0	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	370	20	15	335
English and French	195	0	0	185
English and non-official language	0	0	0	10
French and non-official language	155	15	10	130
English, French and non-official language	20	0	0	20

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

'Knowledge of official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

'Knowledge of non-official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in a language other than English or French. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. The number of languages that can be reported may vary between surveys, depending on the objectives of the survey.

For more information on language 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 Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

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 3

'First generation' includes persons who were born outside Canada. For the most part, these are people who are now, or once were, immigrants to Canada.

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Footnote 4

'Second generation' includes persons who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada. For the most part, these are the children of immigrants.

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