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 Duncan
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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}	43,165	6,350	8,705	28,110
Single responses	42,765	6,175	8,610	27,985
Official languages	39,450	3,740	8,035	27,675
English	38,975	3,680	7,980	27,315
French	470	60	50	365
Non-official languages	3,315	2,430	570	305
Aboriginal languages	245	0	0	235
Non-Aboriginal languages	3,070	2,425	570	70
Afro-Asiatic languages	75	75	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	75	80	0	0
Amharic	0	0	0	0
Arabic	70	70	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	75	45	35	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	75	45	35	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	185	185	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	10	0	0	0
Fijian	10	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	20	25	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0
Malay	10	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	145	145	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	60	50	10	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	35	30	10	0
Tamil	20	15	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	2,235	1,720	455	65
Albanian	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	275	205	60	10
Baltic languages	10	0	10	0
Latvian	15	0	10	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	260	195	55	10
Belarusan	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	10	15	0	0
Bulgarian	15	15	0	0
Croatian	45	35	10	0
Czech	45	45	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0
Polish	45	45	0	0
Russian	30	25	0	10
Serbian	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	10	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	10	10	0	0
Ukrainian	50	0	40	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	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	1,065	820	205	35
Afrikaans	10	10	0	0
Danish	80	45	25	10
Dutch	405	365	35	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0
German	495	345	125	30
Icelandic	0	0	10	0
Norwegian	15	0	0	0
Swedish	30	30	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	15	10	10	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Greek	10	0	10	0
Indo-Iranian languages	580	440	130	10
Indo-Aryan languages	570	435	130	10
Bengali	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0
Hindi	25	20	10	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0
Nepali	15	15	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	495	370	115	10
Sindhi	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0
Urdu	40	30	10	0
Iranian languages	10	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	10	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	305	250	50	10
Catalan	0	0	0	0
Italian	80	50	30	0
Portuguese	65	60	10	0
Romanian	30	30	0	0
Spanish	125	110	15	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Japanese	45	40	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0
Korean	45	45	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	0	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.	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	15	0	15	0
American Sign Language	10	0	10	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	10	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	205	175	25	10
Chinese languages	205	175	25	10
Cantonese	80	60	20	10
Hakka	10	10	0	0
Mandarin	95	90	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.	25	20	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	35	30	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0
Thai	35	30	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	95	70	25	0
Estonian	10	10	0	0
Finnish	45	20	20	0
Hungarian	50	40	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	405	175	95	130
English and French	85	0	0	85
English and non-official language	300	175	90	35
French and non-official language	0	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	20	10	10	10

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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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