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 Grande Prairie
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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 62,750 55,935 6,810
Official languages 61,350 54,630 6,715
English 61,085 54,425 6,660
French 1,875 210 1,665
Non-official languages 6,605 1,305 5,300
Aboriginal languages 220 15 200
Algonquian languages 175 15 155
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 170 15 150
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 25 10 20
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 20 0 20
Cree, n.o.s. 120 5 115
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 5
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 5
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 35 0 35
Northern Athabaskan languages 35 0 40
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 5 0 5
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 20 0 20
Dogrib (Tlicho) 15 0 10
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 5 0 5
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 5 0 5
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 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 5
Inuktitut 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 5 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 5
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 6,390 1,290 5,100
Afro-Asiatic languages 500 145 350
Berber languages 0 0 5
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 165 55 105
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 5
Somali 155 55 100
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 340 90 250
Amharic 30 5 30
Arabic 280 85 195
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 0 10
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 10
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 35 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 45 30 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 5 0
Austronesian languages 2,455 400 2,050
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 110 10 95
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 0 15
Ilocano 65 15 50
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 5
Pangasinan 0 0 5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,270 360 1,910
Waray-Waray 5 0 5
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 10 15
Creole languages 15 0 10
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Dravidian languages 115 15 95
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 5 30
Tamil 40 10 35
Telugu 40 5 35
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,470 485 1,985
Albanian 40 0 40
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 480 90 390
Baltic languages 5 5 5
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 0 5
Slavic languages 475 85 390
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 10 10
Croatian 20 0 20
Czech 20 0 20
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 165 30 135
Russian 135 20 115
Serbian 15 0 10
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 25 5 20
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0
Ukrainian 85 20 65
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 585 50 530
Afrikaans 50 5 45
Danish 5 0 5
Dutch 30 0 25
Frisian 0 0 0
German 475 40 435
Icelandic 5 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 10
Swedish 5 0 5
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5
Greek 15 0 10
Indo-Iranian languages 725 215 515
Indo-Aryan languages 660 190 470
Bengali 25 5 20
Gujarati 55 15 40
Hindi 130 50 90
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 5
Nepali 15 5 10
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 365 110 255
Sindhi 5 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 5 20
Urdu 70 5 60
Iranian languages 60 25 45
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 60 25 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 655 130 530
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 35 5 25
Portuguese 40 0 40
Romanian 55 15 40
Spanish 535 110 425
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 30 5 25
Kartvelian languages 0 0 5
Georgian 0 0 5
Korean 90 30 60
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 200 25 170
Akan (Twi) 15 0 15
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 10 0 5
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 5
Ganda 10 0 10
Igbo 35 0 35
Lingala 0 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 20 5 15
Shona 10 0 5
Swahili 20 0 25
Wolof 10 5 10
Yoruba 35 5 40
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 5 20
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 10
Dinka 5 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5
Sign languages 45 10 40
American Sign Language 15 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 35 5 25
Sino-Tibetan languages 340 120 220
Chinese languages 340 120 220
Cantonese 185 85 95
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 125 30 95
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 5 25
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 15 0 20
Lao 0 0 0
Thai 15 0 15
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 20 25
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 40 20 20
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Uralic languages 20 0 20
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 5
Hungarian 15 5 15
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 0 10

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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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