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 North Vancouver, DM
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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 85,495 74,855 35 9,460 1,145
Single responses 83,810 73,650 35 8,980 1,145
Official languages 62,945 55,440 15 7,465 25
English 61,870 55,375 0 6,475 25
French 1,075 65 20 990 0
Non-official languages 20,865 18,215 15 1,520 1,120
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 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 0 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 5 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 5 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 0 0 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 0 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 20,860 18,205 15 1,520 1,120
Afro-Asiatic languages 225 175 0 45 5
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 230 175 0 45 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 165 120 0 35 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 50 45 0 10 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 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 50 40 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 40 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,180 1,175 0 5 5
Bikol 10 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 30 30 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 80 80 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 40 45 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 990 985 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 0 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 5 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 12,915 11,255 15 1,245 405
Albanian 20 15 0 0 0
Armenian 95 75 0 15 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,875 1,640 5 190 45
Baltic languages 30 30 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,850 1,610 0 185 45
Belarusan 10 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 70 45 0 15 5
Croatian 110 100 0 5 0
Czech 315 280 0 25 10
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 475 415 0 50 5
Russian 460 400 0 40 25
Serbian 70 65 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 5 0
Slovak 150 140 0 10 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 25 20 0 5 0
Ukrainian 120 105 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,250 1,965 0 270 15
Afrikaans 155 150 0 5 0
Danish 105 95 0 5 0
Dutch 320 275 0 40 5
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,465 1,265 0 195 5
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 60 60 0 5 0
Swedish 110 105 0 10 5
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 160 145 0 15 5
Indo-Iranian languages 6,210 5,500 10 410 295
Indo-Aryan languages 1,045 985 0 40 25
Bengali 5 10 0 0 0
Gujarati 320 305 0 20 5
Hindi 130 125 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 350 320 0 5 20
Sindhi 120 110 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 80 80 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5,165 4,515 5 370 275
Kurdish 45 40 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5,115 4,465 5 365 270
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,280 1,890 0 350 40
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 525 445 0 75 5
Portuguese 365 320 0 40 5
Romanian 155 110 0 45 5
Spanish 1,225 1,015 0 185 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Japanese 620 565 0 20 35
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,475 1,275 0 40 160
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 30 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 15 20 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,750 3,185 0 90 470
Chinese languages 3,745 3,185 5 90 465
Cantonese 1,495 1,345 5 45 110
Hakka 25 20 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,990 1,605 0 40 335
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 125 115 0 5 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 40 30 0 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 65 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 5 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 40 40 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 200 165 0 15 20
Azerbaijani 50 35 0 5 10
Turkish 150 125 0 10 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Uralic languages 295 255 0 40 10
Estonian 40 30 0 10 5
Finnish 70 70 0 5 0
Hungarian 190 160 0 30 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,685 1,205 5 480 0
English and French 255 35 0 220 0
English and non-official language 1,290 1,145 0 140 5
French and non-official language 75 15 5 55 5
English, French and non-official language 65 10 0 60 0

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

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