Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) 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 , knowledge of official languages , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Airdrie, CY
Data quality
Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 61,585 56,550 60 4,735 230
Single responses 60,820 56,000 60 4,525 235
Official languages 54,680 50,445 50 4,170 5
English 53,475 50,370 0 3,105 10
French 1,200 80 50 1,070 0
Non-official languages 6,140 5,550 5 360 225
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 6,130 5,540 5 360 225
Afro-Asiatic languages 240 190 0 40 10
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 5
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 230 190 5 35 10
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 200 165 5 35 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 5 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 10 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 120 105 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 115 100 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,005 990 5 5 5
Bikol 10 15 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 40 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 15 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 910 900 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 5 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 60 60 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,760 3,375 0 235 140
Albanian 20 10 0 10 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 535 495 0 25 15
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 520 485 0 25 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 35 30 0 5 0
Czech 35 35 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 120 115 0 0 5
Russian 130 110 0 10 5
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 105 100 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 740 710 0 30 0
Afrikaans 25 30 0 0 0
Danish 30 25 0 0 0
Dutch 165 155 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 500 485 0 15 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 35 40 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,110 1,010 0 15 80
Indo-Aryan languages 1,020 940 0 15 70
Bengali 40 35 0 0 0
Gujarati 55 50 0 5 0
Hindi 105 100 0 0 5
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 560 500 0 10 55
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 230 215 0 0 10
Iranian languages 80 65 0 0 10
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 5
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 50 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 1,305 1,100 5 150 45
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 85 80 0 5 0
Portuguese 130 110 0 15 10
Romanian 175 140 0 30 10
Spanish 915 780 5 105 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 50 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 145 120 0 5 20
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 235 195 0 35 0
Akan (Twi) 50 45 0 5 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 5 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 25 25 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 50 50 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 35 0 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 10 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 300 270 0 5 25
Chinese languages 300 270 0 10 20
Cantonese 165 145 0 10 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 115 105 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 35 35 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 5 0
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 115 100 0 5 5
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 5
Hungarian 90 80 0 0 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 765 555 0 210 0
English and French 180 40 0 140 0
English and non-official language 535 510 0 20 0
French and non-official language 30 0 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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