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 Sherbrooke
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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 4 159,195 157,130 2,065
Official languages 148,945 146,875 2,070
English 7,580 6,215 1,365
French 142,610 140,660 1,950
Non-official languages 11,140 10,250 895
Aboriginal languages 10 5 5
Algonquian languages 5 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 5
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 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 5 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 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 0 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 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 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 5
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 0
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
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. 0 0 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 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 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. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 11,130 10,245 885
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,190 1,930 265
Berber languages 180 150 35
Kabyle 130 100 25
Berber languages, n.i.e. 50 45 5
Cushitic languages 10 10 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,965 1,730 235
Amharic 0 5 0
Arabic 1,915 1,685 230
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 10 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 255 235 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 65 55 10
Vietnamese 185 175 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 5 0
Austronesian languages 70 65 10
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0
Malagasy 20 20 0
Malay 5 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 25 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Creole languages 175 130 45
Haitian Creole 10 10 0
Creole, n.o.s. 160 115 45
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Dravidian languages 35 25 10
Kannada 10 5 5
Malayalam 15 5 5
Tamil 10 5 0
Telugu 5 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,695 6,320 380
Albanian 20 20 5
Armenian 10 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,410 1,340 70
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,405 1,335 65
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 200 190 15
Bulgarian 25 25 0
Croatian 45 50 5
Czech 15 15 0
Macedonian 0 0 0
Polish 115 115 5
Russian 165 155 15
Serbian 405 385 15
Serbo-Croatian 355 335 15
Slovak 15 15 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0
Ukrainian 35 35 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 200 190 15
Afrikaans 5 5 0
Danish 5 5 0
Dutch 40 40 5
Frisian 0 0 0
German 140 135 10
Icelandic 0 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0
Swedish 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 5
Yiddish 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 70 65 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,640 1,570 70
Indo-Aryan languages 275 265 10
Bengali 15 10 5
Gujarati 5 10 0
Hindi 20 15 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0
Nepali 190 185 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 15 10 0
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0
Urdu 25 20 5
Iranian languages 1,360 1,300 60
Kurdish 25 25 5
Pashto 50 50 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,280 1,225 55
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,345 3,135 215
Catalan 10 10 0
Italian 170 145 25
Portuguese 235 225 15
Romanian 160 155 5
Spanish 2,775 2,600 175
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 30 30 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 1,100 970 130
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 25 20 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 30 25 10
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 10 10 5
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 65 50 15
Rundi (Kirundi) 185 175 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 120 115 10
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 235 195 35
Wolof 95 85 10
Yoruba 5 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 335 290 40
Nilo-Saharan languages 40 40 0
Dinka 5 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0
Sign languages 30 20 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 20 5 10
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 350 335 15
Chinese languages 350 335 10
Cantonese 50 50 0
Hakka 0 0 5
Mandarin 255 250 10
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 35 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 30 25 5
Lao 20 15 0
Thai 10 10 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 50 50 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0
Turkish 45 40 5
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 30 30 5
Estonian 0 5 0
Finnish 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 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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