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 New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick
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 1 736,285 420,815 63,145 249,950 2,365
Single responses 726,990 418,910 62,930 242,805 2,345
Official languages 703,840 401,710 62,495 239,540 90
English 472,730 399,675 120 72,855 80
French 231,110 2,040 62,375 166,685 10
Non-official languages 23,150 17,195 440 3,270 2,250
Aboriginal languages 2,165 2,090 0 70 5
Algonquian languages 2,130 2,055 0 65 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 2,115 2,040 0 65 5
Malecite 280 275 0 5 0
Mi'kmaq 1,835 1,765 0 65 5
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 5 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. 5 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 20 20 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 10 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 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. 5 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 20,990 15,105 435 3,195 2,250
Afro-Asiatic languages 3,190 1,255 110 630 1,190
Berber languages 40 0 10 35 0
Kabyle 20 0 5 15 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 25 0 5 25 0
Cushitic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 3,110 1,230 100 590 1,185
Amharic 65 50 0 10 0
Arabic 2,855 1,005 100 560 1,180
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 170 150 0 15 5
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 630 505 5 75 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 5 0
Vietnamese 625 500 5 70 50
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,375 1,305 10 50 15
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 105 100 0 0 5
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 45 45 0 0 0
Malagasy 15 0 5 10 0
Malay 50 50 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,120 1,075 5 35 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 135 40 20 70 0
Haitian Creole 10 0 5 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 85 0 10 65 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 280 260 0 15 5
Kannada 25 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 0
Tamil 105 100 0 10 0
Telugu 110 105 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 9,325 7,170 90 1,640 420
Albanian 50 45 0 0 0
Armenian 25 10 0 15 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,740 1,400 15 255 70
Baltic languages 55 50 0 10 0
Latvian 25 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 30 25 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,685 1,355 15 245 70
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 50 45 0 0 5
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0
Croatian 75 65 0 15 0
Czech 55 35 0 15 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 230 180 0 50 0
Russian 880 715 10 105 50
Serbian 105 85 5 15 5
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 10 0
Slovak 30 15 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 170 135 0 25 15
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 30 20 0 10 5
Scottish Gaelic 15 10 0 5 5
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,875 2,335 5 510 25
Afrikaans 50 45 0 5 0
Danish 125 110 0 15 0
Dutch 885 730 5 155 0
Frisian 35 35 0 5 0
German 1,650 1,330 5 290 25
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 40 35 0 0 0
Swedish 45 30 0 20 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 10 0 10 0
Yiddish 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 145 120 0 25 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,850 1,570 5 155 125
Indo-Aryan languages 1,175 1,030 0 90 60
Bengali 210 190 0 15 5
Gujarati 75 65 0 5 0
Hindi 230 205 0 20 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 50 45 0 5 0
Nepali 185 145 0 10 40
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 125 105 0 10 10
Sindhi 25 20 0 5 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 245 215 0 20 5
Iranian languages 655 525 5 65 65
Kurdish 50 15 0 0 40
Pashto 25 20 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 580 495 0 65 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,610 1,665 65 690 190
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 400 215 5 170 10
Portuguese 265 185 5 65 5
Romanian 485 300 25 130 30
Spanish 1,460 960 30 325 140
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 110 85 0 20 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,545 1,290 0 175 75
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 695 230 170 275 15
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 5 0
Bamanankan 60 5 30 30 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 45 0 15 30 0
Ga 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 5 0
Lingala 25 0 15 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 50 10 0 30 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 40 0 5 30 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 130 30 35 60 5
Wolof 25 0 5 20 0
Yoruba 30 30 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 195 65 60 55 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dinka 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 140 65 5 10 60
American Sign Language 40 30 0 5 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 95 35 5 10 45
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,115 2,535 15 165 400
Chinese languages 3,085 2,505 15 160 405
Cantonese 440 330 5 50 55
Hakka 15 15 0 0 0
Mandarin 2,255 1,835 5 95 315
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 20 0 5 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 100 80 0 10 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 235 215 5 5 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 30 25 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 60 50 0 5 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 55 55 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 100 75 5 15 10
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 75 60 0 15 10
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 250 210 0 40 0
Estonian 15 15 0 5 0
Finnish 45 40 0 10 0
Hungarian 180 155 0 30 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 5 0
Multiple responses 9,290 1,915 215 7,145 25
English and French 7,280 570 130 6,580 0
English and non-official language 1,535 1,315 5 200 20
French and non-official language 335 15 75 240 5
English, French and non-official language 145 15 0 125 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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Data quality note(s) – New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.9%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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