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 Winkler
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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}	29,930	8,740	6,730	14,455
Single responses	29,500	8,620	6,565	14,315
Official languages	15,840	545	3,635	11,660
English	15,745	545	3,630	11,570
French	95	0	10	90
Non-official languages	13,660	8,075	2,930	2,655
Aboriginal languages	0	0	0	10
Non-Aboriginal languages	13,650	8,075	2,935	2,645
Afro-Asiatic languages	50	40	0	10
Berber languages	0	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	15	15	0	0
Bilen	15	20	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	35	25	0	10
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	30	25	0	10
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	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	135	130	10	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)	135	125	10	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.	15	10	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	25	25	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0
Telugu	25	25	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	13,280	7,730	2,905	2,645
Albanian	10	10	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	1,655	1,505	130	15
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	1,650	1,510	135	15
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0
Czech	10	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	20	20	10	0
Russian	1,415	1,325	85	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	10	10	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	200	150	40	15
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	11,200	5,875	2,715	2,615
Afrikaans	35	20	10	0
Danish	0	0	0	0
Dutch	20	15	10	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	11,145	5,835	2,695	2,610
Icelandic	10	0	10	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	215	175	30	0
Indo-Aryan languages	190	160	30	0
Bengali	20	15	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0
Hindi	25	25	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)	115	100	15	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	30	10	20	0
Iranian languages	25	25	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	20	25	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	200	160	30	15
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	0	0	0	0
Portuguese	25	30	0	0
Romanian	10	0	0	0
Spanish	165	130	30	10
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	75	75	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	20	20	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	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	15	15	0	0
Swahili	10	10	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	10	0	10	0
American Sign Language	10	10	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	35	20	15	0
Chinese languages	35	20	15	0
Cantonese	20	15	10	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	20	10	10	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	10	10	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	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	10	10	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0
Finnish	10	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	430	120	170	140
English and French	10	0	10	10
English and non-official language	415	115	165	135
French and non-official language	10	0	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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