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 Prince Albert
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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}	42,380	3,380	4,400	34,600
Single responses	41,325	3,005	4,285	34,030
Official languages	36,485	800	3,720	31,970
English	35,335	740	3,610	30,980
French	1,150	55	110	985
Non-official languages	4,840	2,210	565	2,060
Aboriginal languages	1,815	0	20	1,795
Non-Aboriginal languages	3,025	2,210	555	270
Afro-Asiatic languages	220	205	15	0
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	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0
Somali	20	15	0	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	200	185	15	0
Amharic	10	10	0	0
Arabic	185	175	15	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	10	10	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	0	0	0	0
Maltese	10	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	95	85	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	90	85	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	545	550	10	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	40	40	0	0
Fijian	10	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	10	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)	485	485	10	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	10	0	0	0
Creole languages	10	10	0	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	15	10	0	0
Dravidian languages	100	85	20	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	100	80	15	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	1,680	970	450	260
Albanian	10	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	720	240	310	170
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	720	235	310	170
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0
Czech	25	10	20	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	55	20	20	10
Russian	130	110	15	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	510	85	255	160
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	10	10	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	375	195	95	90
Afrikaans	85	70	10	0
Danish	10	0	0	0
Dutch	25	20	0	10
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	240	95	60	80
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	10	0	10	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	10	0	10	0
Indo-Iranian languages	445	430	20	0
Indo-Aryan languages	425	415	10	0
Bengali	10	0	0	0
Gujarati	80	75	0	0
Hindi	50	50	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	10	0	0	0
Nepali	10	10	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	190	180	10	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	80	80	0	0
Iranian languages	15	10	10	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	10	10	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	120	95	25	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	15	0	15	0
Portuguese	10	0	0	0
Romanian	15	15	0	0
Spanish	85	70	10	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	10	10	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	35	25	10	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	135	135	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)	10	10	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	35	35	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0
Swahili	55	55	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0
Yoruba	15	20	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	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	165	125	35	0
Chinese languages	65	50	10	0
Cantonese	25	20	10	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	30	25	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.	10	0	10	0
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	100	80	20	0
Burmese	50	25	25	0
Karenic languages	45	45	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	10	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	10	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	15	10	10	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	15	10	15	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	1,055	380	105	570
English and French	140	0	10	115
English and non-official language	905	365	95	445
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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