Data tables, 2016 Census

Language Spoken at Home (263), Single and Multiple Responses of Language Spoken at Home (3), Mother Tongue (269) and Age (7) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details language spoken at home , single and multiple responses of language spoken at home , mother tongue and age for the population excluding institutional residents in Cornwall
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Language spoken at home (263) Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home (3)
Total - Single and multiple responses of language spoken at homeFootnote 2 Single response of language spoken at homeFootnote 3 Multiple responses of language spoken at homeFootnote 4
Total - Language spoken at homeFootnote 5 58,620 46,375 12,245
Official languages 57,850 45,645 12,205
English 55,375 43,255 12,115
French 12,520 2,385 10,125
Non-official languages 3,145 730 2,420
Aboriginal languages 160 10 155
Algonquian languages 10 5 10
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 5
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 5
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 0 5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 5
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Iroquoian languages 140 5 135
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 135 5 135
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 0 5
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,990 725 2,265
Afro-Asiatic languages 180 25 155
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 180 25 155
Amharic 5 0 5
Arabic 165 25 140
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 65 20 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 5
Vietnamese 65 20 45
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 70 0 65
Bikol 0 0 5
Cebuano 5 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 10 0 10
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 0 55
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Creole languages 25 5 25
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 10 15
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 485 165 325
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 5 10
Tamil 470 160 310
Telugu 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,840 410 1,435
Albanian 0 0 0
Armenian 10 5 10
Balto-Slavic languages 125 20 100
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 120 25 100
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0
Croatian 10 0 10
Czech 10 5 5
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 40 10 35
Russian 25 5 20
Serbian 10 5 10
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 0 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 0 10
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 5
Welsh 5 0 5
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Germanic languages 255 10 245
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 0 0 0
Dutch 85 5 80
Frisian 0 0 0
German 155 10 155
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 5
Swedish 0 0 5
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 100 15 85
Indo-Iranian languages 980 305 670
Indo-Aryan languages 840 235 610
Bengali 45 10 35
Gujarati 65 15 50
Hindi 40 5 40
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 110 30 80
Sindhi 5 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 0 10
Urdu 600 175 425
Iranian languages 130 70 65
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 75 40 30
Persian (Farsi) 55 25 30
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 370 55 315
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 115 15 100
Portuguese 20 5 15
Romanian 30 0 30
Spanish 210 35 175
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5
Japanese 25 5 20
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0
Korean 20 5 15
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 25 0 20
Akan (Twi) 5 0 10
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 5
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 5
Lingala 0 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 0 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 50 20 35
American Sign Language 25 5 20
Quebec Sign Language 5 0 5
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 10 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 135 65 65
Chinese languages 130 70 70
Cantonese 65 40 20
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 20 35
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 0 5
Lao 0 0 5
Thai 5 0 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 0 10
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 10 0 5
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5
Uralic languages 45 10 35
Estonian 5 5 5
Finnish 5 0 5
Hungarian 35 5 35
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Footnote 2

The category 'Total - Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single and multiple responses of the language spoken at home received in the census.

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Footnote 3

A single response to the language spoken at home occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 4

A multiple response to the language spoken at home occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 5

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016345.

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