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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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 Thornhill
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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 1 112,120 98,560 55 9,125 4,375
Single responses 108,165 95,315 45 8,450 4,350
Official languages 51,225 46,045 15 5,115 45
English 50,255 45,960 5 4,245 45
French 965 80 15 870 0
Non-official languages 56,940 49,270 30 3,340 4,305
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 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 56,925 49,260 25 3,335 4,305
Afro-Asiatic languages 4,370 3,915 0 355 95
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 20 20 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 4,345 3,895 0 355 95
Amharic 25 20 0 0 0
Arabic 640 495 0 125 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 25 25 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 3,615 3,315 0 230 70
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 25 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 565 445 0 35 85
Khmer (Cambodian) 40 35 0 5 5
Vietnamese 525 410 0 30 80
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,255 3,195 5 25 30
Bikol 5 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 55 5 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 40 40 0 0 0
Ilocano 335 335 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 70 65 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 15 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,705 2,660 0 20 25
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 50 5 0 40 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 40 5 0 40 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 715 645 0 25 45
Kannada 10 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 95 90 0 5 0
Tamil 555 500 0 20 35
Telugu 50 50 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 33,110 28,595 15 2,370 2,130
Albanian 225 185 0 20 20
Armenian 295 225 0 45 25
Balto-Slavic languages 15,905 13,705 5 1,030 1,170
Baltic languages 130 120 0 5 0
Latvian 45 40 0 5 0
Lithuanian 90 85 0 0 0
Slavic languages 15,775 13,580 5 1,020 1,170
Belarusan 25 20 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 5 0
Bulgarian 140 120 0 20 5
Croatian 80 70 0 5 5
Czech 40 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 100 95 0 5 0
Polish 530 490 0 25 10
Russian 13,895 11,895 5 900 1,100
Serbian 350 295 0 35 20
Serbo-Croatian 25 25 0 5 0
Slovak 80 80 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 45 40 0 5 0
Ukrainian 445 390 0 20 30
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,195 1,050 0 130 15
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0
Dutch 85 75 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 365 325 0 45 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 695 610 0 75 15
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 555 510 0 20 20
Indo-Iranian languages 8,400 7,505 5 375 510
Indo-Aryan languages 2,650 2,440 0 75 135
Bengali 155 140 0 10 0
Gujarati 1,015 925 0 25 65
Hindi 455 425 0 15 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 50 55 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 525 460 0 10 50
Sindhi 60 60 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 60 65 0 0 0
Urdu 310 290 0 5 5
Iranian languages 5,745 5,060 5 300 380
Kurdish 65 55 0 0 0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5,665 4,990 5 300 375
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 6,535 5,405 10 750 370
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 2,910 2,560 0 155 195
Portuguese 735 640 0 30 60
Romanian 1,025 715 5 250 60
Spanish 1,860 1,485 5 315 55
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 95 90 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 105 90 0 0 15
Georgian 105 90 0 0 10
Korean 4,100 3,475 5 130 490
Mongolic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 60 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 25 25 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 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 10 0 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 9,295 7,705 5 240 1,345
Chinese languages 9,270 7,690 0 240 1,345
Cantonese 3,625 3,060 5 85 475
Hakka 165 145 0 10 15
Mandarin 4,945 4,045 0 120 775
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 270 220 0 10 40
Wu (Shanghainese) 110 80 0 5 25
Chinese, n.o.s. 140 125 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 5
Burmese 20 20 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 70 60 0 5 5
Lao 35 30 0 5 5
Thai 30 30 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 380 310 0 35 35
Azerbaijani 110 80 0 15 15
Turkish 235 195 0 15 20
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Uralic languages 740 645 0 70 15
Estonian 40 35 0 5 0
Finnish 55 55 0 0 0
Hungarian 645 565 0 65 15
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 3,960 3,245 10 675 30
English and French 190 30 5 160 0
English and non-official language 3,450 3,150 0 270 25
French and non-official language 160 30 10 120 0
English, French and non-official language 160 30 0 125 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016059.

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