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 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
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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 1 111,785 67,450 1,370 42,760 210
Single responses 109,525 66,875 1,365 41,075 205
Official languages 103,895 62,705 1,320 39,860 10
English 81,015 62,185 5 18,820 5
French 22,880 520 1,310 21,040 0
Non-official languages 5,630 4,170 45 1,215 195
Aboriginal languages 470 450 0 15 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 5 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 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 10 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 440 425 5 10 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 440 425 5 10 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 5,155 3,720 45 1,200 195
Afro-Asiatic languages 260 130 20 105 10
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 260 130 15 105 10
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 235 115 15 95 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 75 50 0 15 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 75 55 0 10 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 125 115 0 10 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 95 0 10 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 0 5 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 0 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 415 300 0 80 35
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 15 0 5 0
Tamil 395 285 0 80 35
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 3,785 2,770 20 895 100
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 15 10 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 365 250 5 110 0
Baltic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 345 235 0 100 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0 5 0
Croatian 25 20 0 5 0
Czech 30 20 0 10 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 140 105 0 30 0
Russian 40 30 5 10 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 5 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 30 0 30 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 1,685 1,360 10 315 10
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 5 0
Dutch 715 635 0 85 5
Frisian 30 30 0 0 0
German 865 635 10 220 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 125 80 0 45 0
Indo-Iranian languages 980 760 0 150 70
Indo-Aryan languages 830 645 0 135 55
Bengali 50 35 0 10 5
Gujarati 70 55 0 15 0
Hindi 25 20 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 125 100 0 15 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 10 0 0 0
Urdu 535 415 0 90 30
Iranian languages 140 105 5 15 15
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 70 50 0 5 15
Persian (Farsi) 75 55 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 600 300 5 270 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 260 120 0 145 5
Portuguese 70 40 0 30 0
Romanian 50 20 0 30 0
Spanish 220 125 5 65 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 20 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 25 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 30 15 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 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 5 0 0 5 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 20 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 5 0 5 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 195 150 0 20 35
Chinese languages 195 150 0 15 35
Cantonese 75 50 0 5 15
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 85 65 0 10 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 25 0 0 5
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 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 5 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 150 115 0 35 0
Estonian 15 10 0 5 0
Finnish 15 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 125 90 0 30 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 2,265 575 5 1,680 0
English and French 1,705 195 0 1,510 0
English and non-official language 450 365 0 85 0
French and non-official language 50 5 5 40 0
English, French and non-official language 60 10 0 50 0

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Footnote(s)

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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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