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 Midland
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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}	34,660	2,865	4,415	27,380
Single responses	34,240	2,795	4,355	27,090
Official languages	32,690	1,535	4,100	27,060
English	31,090	1,495	4,025	25,570
French	1,605	40	70	1,495
Non-official languages	1,550	1,260	255	30
Aboriginal languages	20	0	0	20
Non-Aboriginal languages	1,530	1,260	255	10
Afro-Asiatic languages	10	0	0	0
Berber languages	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	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	10	10	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	10	10	0	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	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	15	10	10	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	15	10	0	10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	70	75	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	0	0	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)	70	70	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	0	0	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	0	0	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	1,155	945	200	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Armenian	10	10	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	265	190	65	0
Baltic languages	15	10	0	0
Latvian	20	0	10	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	245	185	60	10
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	10	10	0	0
Czech	40	35	10	0
Macedonian	10	10	0	0
Polish	105	80	25	0
Russian	15	15	0	0
Serbian	10	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0
Slovak	10	10	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	20	10	10	0
Ukrainian	30	15	10	10
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	10	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	600	500	95	10
Afrikaans	20	20	10	0
Danish	15	15	0	0
Dutch	110	90	25	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	445	380	65	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	25	30	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	40	35	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	25	25	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	10	0	0
Hindi	15	15	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)	10	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	10	0	0	0
Kurdish	10	10	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	10	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	210	170	45	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	120	80	45	0
Portuguese	25	25	0	0
Romanian	25	25	0	0
Spanish	40	40	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	20	10	10	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	45	35	10	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	10	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	10	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	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	0	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.	0	0	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	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	130	120	15	0
Chinese languages	130	120	10	0
Cantonese	55	50	10	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	70	65	0	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	10	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	0	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	10	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	70	50	15	0
Estonian	10	10	10	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	50	40	10	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	420	70	60	290
English and French	295	0	20	280
English and non-official language	115	60	45	15
French and non-official language	10	10	0	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0

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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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