Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 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 and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Westmount, V
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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 19,940 4,010 510 15,235 180
Single responses 19,065 3,885 490 14,505 180
Official languages 14,460 2,530 320 11,610 10
English 10,225 2,515 5 7,705 5
French 4,235 15 315 3,905 5
Non-official languages 4,600 1,355 170 2,900 175
Aboriginal languages 0 0 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 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 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 4,600 1,355 170 2,900 175
Afro-Asiatic languages 565 130 30 400 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 570 130 30 405 10
Amharic 0 5 0 0 0
Arabic 520 120 30 370 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 45 15 0 30 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 90 10 5 75 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 90 10 0 70 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 80 65 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 60 0 10 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 20 0 10 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 5 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,725 590 105 1,975 45
Albanian 15 5 0 5 0
Armenian 60 10 5 45 0
Balto-Slavic languages 600 145 25 415 15
Baltic languages 25 5 0 25 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 5 0 20 0
Slavic languages 575 140 25 395 15
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 50 10 5 40 5
Croatian 15 5 0 10 0
Czech 35 5 0 35 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 110 20 0 95 5
Russian 230 70 15 140 5
Serbian 35 5 5 25 5
Serbo-Croatian 15 0 0 10 0
Slovak 15 5 0 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 5 0
Ukrainian 50 15 10 30 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 405 95 0 310 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 15 0 0 10 0
Dutch 60 10 0 45 5
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 220 50 5 170 5
Icelandic 10 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 10 0 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 80 20 0 55 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 140 30 0 105 0
Indo-Iranian languages 410 185 15 205 15
Indo-Aryan languages 110 70 0 40 0
Bengali 15 10 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 5 0
Hindi 30 20 0 10 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 5 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 15 5 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 15 0 10 0
Iranian languages 305 110 10 165 15
Kurdish 10 5 0 5 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 295 110 10 160 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,085 130 60 880 15
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Italian 300 15 10 270 0
Portuguese 120 35 10 75 5
Romanian 115 5 10 95 0
Spanish 550 70 35 430 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Japanese 75 45 0 25 5
Kartvelian languages 10 0 0 5 0
Georgian 10 0 0 10 0
Korean 275 140 0 90 45
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 0 5 10 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 0 0 0 5 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 560 285 20 200 60
Chinese languages 560 285 25 200 55
Cantonese 90 40 0 40 10
Hakka 0 0 0 5 0
Mandarin 425 225 20 130 45
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 5 0 5 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 10 0 10 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 10 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 40 15 0 20 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 20 0 20 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Uralic languages 115 45 5 70 0
Estonian 15 5 0 10 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 95 35 0 60 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 880 130 20 725 0
English and French 385 5 0 375 0
English and non-official language 260 120 0 135 0
French and non-official language 140 5 15 120 0
English, French and non-official language 90 0 0 85 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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-X2016055.

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