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 Lethbridge, CY
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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 91,420 85,810 25 4,745 845
Single responses 90,175 84,780 25 4,535 840
Official languages 78,370 74,220 15 4,115 25
English 77,465 74,115 0 3,330 25
French 900 110 10 785 0
Non-official languages 11,810 10,560 10 425 815
Aboriginal languages 265 260 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 255 250 0 0 0
Blackfoot 230 235 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 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 5 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 5 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 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 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 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 5 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 11,545 10,295 10 420 815
Afro-Asiatic languages 565 355 0 30 180
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 55 45 0 0 10
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 20 0 5 5
Somali 25 20 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 510 315 0 25 170
Amharic 55 50 0 0 0
Arabic 400 205 0 30 165
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 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 50 45 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 230 190 0 5 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0 0
Vietnamese 210 175 0 5 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,155 1,135 0 10 10
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 60 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 20 20 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,010 995 0 5 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 10 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 5 5 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 80 75 0 0 5
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 45 45 0 0 5
Tamil 15 15 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,275 6,570 5 295 410
Albanian 60 55 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,210 1,150 0 40 25
Baltic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,185 1,125 0 35 20
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 55 45 0 0 5
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 165 165 0 0 5
Czech 50 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 405 385 0 15 5
Russian 135 115 0 10 5
Serbian 40 35 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 35 0 0 0
Ukrainian 235 225 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,365 2,285 0 60 20
Afrikaans 65 60 0 0 5
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Dutch 825 805 0 20 0
Frisian 25 20 0 0 0
German 1,365 1,315 0 30 20
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0
Swedish 20 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 30 25 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,930 1,620 0 35 280
Indo-Aryan languages 1,625 1,340 0 25 260
Bengali 95 90 0 5 0
Gujarati 150 140 0 5 10
Hindi 70 65 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Nepali 965 725 0 10 230
Oriya (Odia) 0 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 130 120 0 5 10
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 40 0 0 5
Urdu 145 140 0 5 5
Iranian languages 305 275 0 5 20
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 40 40 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 245 220 0 5 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,680 1,435 5 155 90
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 255 230 0 10 10
Portuguese 80 65 0 10 5
Romanian 70 40 0 25 0
Spanish 1,280 1,095 5 105 70
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 330 315 0 5 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 180 170 0 0 10
Mongolic languages 10 5 0 0 5
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 290 245 5 40 5
Akan (Twi) 30 25 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 25 20 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 0 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 20 15 0 0 0
Swahili 90 80 0 10 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 50 50 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 100 95 0 5 5
Dinka 60 60 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 900 755 0 20 130
Chinese languages 865 725 0 15 125
Cantonese 440 345 0 0 90
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 330 290 0 15 35
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 70 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 35 30 0 0 10
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 30 20 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 45 40 0 0 0
Lao 15 15 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 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 305 300 0 5 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0 0
Hungarian 275 265 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 5
Multiple responses 1,250 1,025 5 210 10
English and French 170 50 5 125 0
English and non-official language 1,010 960 0 45 5
French and non-official language 45 10 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 15 5

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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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