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 Kings
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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 59,670 54,695 55 4,830 80
Single responses 59,375 54,535 60 4,700 85
Official languages 57,740 53,145 55 4,535 5
English 56,570 53,070 0 3,495 5
French 1,170 75 55 1,040 0
Non-official languages 1,635 1,390 0 170 75
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 0 5 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 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 10 15 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 10 10 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 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 10 15 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 15 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 1,600 1,360 5 165 75
Afro-Asiatic languages 115 90 0 10 15
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 15 5 0 0 15
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 10
Semitic languages 105 85 0 15 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 100 85 0 15 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 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 10 10 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 100 100 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 80 80 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 15 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 10 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 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 990 825 0 125 35
Albanian 15 10 0 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 115 95 0 20 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 105 80 0 20 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 35 25 0 5 5
Russian 25 20 0 5 0
Serbian 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 660 565 0 85 10
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 15 10 0 5 0
Dutch 285 260 0 25 0
Frisian 15 15 0 0 0
German 320 265 0 50 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 40 45 0 0 0
Bengali 5 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 0 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 15 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 10 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 135 95 0 20 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 5 0
Portuguese 20 10 0 5 0
Romanian 5 5 0 5 0
Spanish 90 60 0 10 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 25 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 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 0 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 20 15 0 5 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 225 200 0 10 15
Chinese languages 220 195 0 10 15
Cantonese 40 35 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 140 125 0 10 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 5 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 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 5 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 40 30 0 10 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 5 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 295 165 0 130 0
English and French 135 35 0 100 0
English and non-official language 140 120 0 20 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 0 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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