Mother Tongue (263), Single and Multiple Mother Tongue Responses (3), Age (7) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data

• Age (7): Total - Age
• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details mother tongue , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Nanaimo, CY

Mother Tongue (263)	Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
	Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses^Footnote 1	Single mother tongue responses^Footnote 2	Multiple mother tongue responses^Footnote 3
Total - Mother tongue^Footnote 4	88,705	87,670	1,035
Official languages	79,160	78,125	1,035
English	77,940	76,930	1,010
French	1,490	1,190	295
Non-official languages	10,325	9,545	785
Aboriginal languages	130	95	35
Algonquian languages	25	10	10
Blackfoot	0	0	0
Cree-Montagnais languages	15	10	0
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	5	5	0
Cree, n.o.s.	10	10	5
Eastern Algonquian languages	0	0	0
Malecite	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	0	0	0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	5	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0
Ojibway	5	0	5
Oji-Cree	0	0	0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages	5	5	0
Northern Athabaskan languages	5	5	0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0	0	0
Beaver	0	0	0
Carrier	5	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	5	0	0
North Slavey (Hare)	0	0	0
South Slavey	0	0	0
Slavey, n.o.s.	5	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	5	5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0	0	0
Inuktitut	5	0	5
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0
Cayuga	0	0	0
Mohawk	5	0	0
Oneida	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0
Michif	5	5	0
Salish languages	15	15	5
Comox	0	0	0
Halkomelem	10	5	5
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.	5	5	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	5	5	0
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	0	0	0
Nisga'a	5	5	5
Tsimshian	5	0	5
Wakashan languages	50	30	20
Haisla	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	15	10	5
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	30	20	10
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	20	15	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	10,200	9,450	745
Afro-Asiatic languages	360	330	25
Berber languages	0	0	0
Kabyle	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	10	10	0
Bilen	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0
Somali	5	5	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Semitic languages	350	320	25
Amharic	10	5	0
Arabic	315	285	25
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Hebrew	15	20	0
Maltese	5	10	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	5
Austro-Asiatic languages	505	465	35
Khmer (Cambodian)	100	85	10
Vietnamese	405	375	30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	735	605	130
Bikol	5	5	0
Cebuano	25	25	5
Fijian	5	5	0
Hiligaynon	15	15	0
Ilocano	35	25	5
Malagasy	0	0	0
Malay	25	25	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	590	480	110
Waray-Waray	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	30	30	0
Creole languages	15	15	0
Haitian Creole	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	10	15	0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Dravidian languages	30	30	5
Kannada	0	0	0
Malayalam	20	15	5
Tamil	10	10	0
Telugu	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	5,540	5,145	395
Albanian	5	5	0
Armenian	10	10	0
Balto-Slavic languages	1,000	945	55
Baltic languages	25	25	0
Latvian	10	15	0
Lithuanian	10	10	0
Slavic languages	975	920	55
Belarusan	0	0	0
Bosnian	5	5	0
Bulgarian	15	15	0
Croatian	135	135	5
Czech	100	95	5
Macedonian	15	10	0
Polish	230	220	10
Russian	185	175	10
Serbian	30	30	0
Serbo-Croatian	15	15	0
Slovak	55	45	5
Slovene (Slovenian)	10	15	0
Ukrainian	160	140	20
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	15	15	0
Celtic languages	25	20	5
Scottish Gaelic	5	5	0
Welsh	10	15	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	10	5	0
Germanic languages	2,110	2,010	100
Afrikaans	85	75	10
Danish	185	180	5
Dutch	505	485	25
Frisian	5	5	0
German	1,130	1,085	50
Icelandic	15	10	0
Norwegian	75	70	10
Swedish	85	80	5
Vlaams (Flemish)	20	15	5
Yiddish	5	10	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0
Greek	75	65	10
Indo-Iranian languages	1,405	1,255	150
Indo-Aryan languages	1,250	1,110	140
Bengali	25	25	0
Gujarati	55	45	10
Hindi	150	120	25
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0
Nepali	5	5	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	5
Punjabi (Panjabi)	950	860	90
Sindhi	5	5	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	10	10	0
Urdu	45	40	10
Iranian languages	150	140	10
Kurdish	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	150	135	10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	915	835	80
Catalan	0	0	0
Italian	230	205	20
Portuguese	130	120	5
Romanian	50	50	0
Spanish	510	460	45
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Japanese	295	275	20
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0
Georgian	0	5	0
Korean	415	405	10
Mongolic languages	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	90	70	20
Akan (Twi)	10	10	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	5	5	0
Ga	5	0	0
Ganda	5	5	5
Igbo	5	5	0
Lingala	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	5	0	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	5	5	0
Shona	0	5	0
Swahili	5	5	0
Wolof	0	0	0
Yoruba	15	10	5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	30	25	5
Nilo-Saharan languages	0	0	0
Dinka	0	0	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Sign languages	20	15	5
American Sign Language	5	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	20	10	10
Sino-Tibetan languages	1,800	1,740	65
Chinese languages	1,800	1,740	60
Cantonese	450	425	20
Hakka	10	10	0
Mandarin	1,195	1,155	35
Min Dong	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	30	35	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	15	10	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	105	105	10
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	5	0	0
Burmese	5	0	0
Karenic languages	0	0	0
Tibetan	0	0	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	80	70	5
Lao	5	0	0
Thai	70	65	10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Turkic languages	30	25	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0
Turkish	25	20	0
Uyghur	0	0	0
Uzbek	5	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Uralic languages	265	250	15
Estonian	15	15	0
Finnish	85	75	10
Hungarian	170	165	5
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	15	10	5

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Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses' 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 mother tongue responses and multiple mother tongue responses received in the census.

Footnote 2

A single mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

Footnote 3

A multiple mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

Footnote 4

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.

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

Data quality note(s) – Nanaimo, CY

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Default. Not applicable.
• Short-form data quality flag
  Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.9%.
• Short-form income data quality flag
  Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016060.