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 Salmon Arm
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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}	17,225	2,080	3,475	11,665
Single responses	17,105	2,070	3,420	11,615
Official languages	15,930	1,225	3,160	11,550
English	15,710	1,210	3,135	11,370
French	220	15	25	185
Non-official languages	1,175	845	260	65
Aboriginal languages	0	0	0	10
Non-Aboriginal languages	1,165	845	260	60
Afro-Asiatic languages	35	35	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	40	35	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	30	35	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	10	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	80	80	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	10	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	10	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	10	10	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	10	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	870	595	215	60
Albanian	10	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	155	90	45	15
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	150	90	45	20
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0
Croatian	10	10	0	0
Czech	10	10	10	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	35	30	0	0
Russian	45	30	0	15
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	10	0	0
Slovak	10	10	10	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	10	10	0	0
Ukrainian	35	10	30	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	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	615	435	135	45
Afrikaans	20	15	0	0
Danish	0	10	0	0
Dutch	150	115	35	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	425	290	95	45
Icelandic	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	10	10	0	0
Swedish	10	10	10	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	40	20	25	0
Indo-Aryan languages	40	20	20	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)	30	10	15	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	15	10	10	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	50	35	10	0
Catalan	10	10	0	0
Italian	10	10	0	0
Portuguese	15	0	10	0
Romanian	0	0	0	0
Spanish	30	25	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	30	15	15	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	15	10	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	10	15	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	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.	15	15	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	65	55	10	0
Chinese languages	65	55	10	0
Cantonese	15	10	10	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	50	45	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	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	40	25	15	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0
Finnish	25	10	15	0
Hungarian	20	15	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	120	10	55	50
English and French	35	0	10	25
English and non-official language	75	10	40	25
French and non-official language	10	0	10	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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