Data tables, 2016 Census

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 The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Prince George, CY
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Mother Tongue (263) Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 1 Single mother tongue responsesFootnote 2 Multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 3
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 4 73,035 72,245 790
Official languages 65,945 65,155 790
English 64,990 64,210 780
French 1,115 945 165
Non-official languages 7,740 7,090 650
Aboriginal languages 365 285 85
Algonquian languages 100 60 35
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 90 55 35
Atikamekw 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 5 0
Naskapi 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0
Plains Cree 15 10 5
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 70 40 30
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 5 5
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 200 165 35
Northern Athabaskan languages 195 160 35
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 5 5 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 165 145 25
Chilcotin 10 5 0
Dene 10 0 5
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 10 10 0
Slavey-Hare languages 5 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 5 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 0
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 5 0
Salish languages 5 5 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 5 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 5 5 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 5 0 5
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 5 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 50 40 10
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 40 30 10
Nisga'a 5 5 0
Tsimshian 5 10 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. 10 5 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 7,370 6,810 565
Afro-Asiatic languages 190 165 20
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 5
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 185 160 20
Amharic 5 5 0
Arabic 165 140 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0
Maltese 15 10 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 70 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0
Vietnamese 80 70 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 740 650 95
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 65 60 5
Fijian 0 5 0
Hiligaynon 5 10 0
Ilocano 25 30 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 15 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 610 525 90
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Creole languages 5 0 5
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Dravidian languages 65 55 15
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 25 10
Tamil 25 20 5
Telugu 15 15 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 5 0
Indo-European languages 5,000 4,665 335
Albanian 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 740 705 35
Baltic languages 10 15 0
Latvian 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0
Slavic languages 730 695 35
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0
Bulgarian 10 15 0
Croatian 185 175 10
Czech 30 30 0
Macedonian 5 5 0
Polish 145 140 5
Russian 100 100 5
Serbian 25 25 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0
Slovak 25 20 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 30 0
Ukrainian 165 150 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0
Welsh 5 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,395 1,315 80
Afrikaans 50 35 10
Danish 85 85 5
Dutch 210 205 10
Frisian 0 5 0
German 970 920 50
Icelandic 10 10 0
Norwegian 40 35 5
Swedish 25 25 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5
Greek 75 70 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,900 1,760 135
Indo-Aryan languages 1,840 1,705 135
Bengali 70 60 10
Gujarati 20 20 0
Hindi 140 125 15
Kashmiri 5 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,495 1,395 95
Sindhi 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0
Urdu 85 80 5
Iranian languages 60 55 5
Kurdish 5 5 0
Pashto 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 880 805 75
Catalan 5 0 0
Italian 285 265 25
Portuguese 250 230 15
Romanian 50 45 10
Spanish 300 270 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 55 50 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 155 150 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 140 125 20
Akan (Twi) 10 10 5
Bamanankan 5 5 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 5
Ganda 5 5 0
Igbo 15 15 0
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 20 20 0
Wolof 5 10 0
Yoruba 25 15 10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 5 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0
Sign languages 40 25 20
American Sign Language 15 10 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 30 15 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 650 635 20
Chinese languages 645 630 20
Cantonese 295 285 10
Hakka 5 5 0
Mandarin 295 290 5
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 10 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 45 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 0
Burmese 5 5 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 25 25 5
Lao 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 175 170 10
Estonian 10 5 0
Finnish 80 75 5
Hungarian 90 90 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0

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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.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

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

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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.

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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-X2016060.

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