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 Chestermere, 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 19,885 18,665 5 845 375
Single responses 19,245 18,080 0 790 370
Official languages 14,240 13,570 0 665 0
English 14,065 13,550 0 515 0
French 175 25 5 155 0
Non-official languages 5,005 4,510 0 125 370
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 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 5 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 5 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 5,000 4,505 0 125 370
Afro-Asiatic languages 235 200 0 25 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 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 235 195 0 20 10
Amharic 15 15 0 0 0
Arabic 200 165 0 20 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 0 5
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 780 680 0 10 85
Khmer (Cambodian) 30 20 0 5 0
Vietnamese 750 660 0 5 85
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 470 465 0 0 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 20 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 25 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 390 385 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 15 15 0 5 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 3,020 2,710 0 75 230
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 295 270 0 10 10
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 285 260 0 10 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 5 0
Croatian 70 70 0 0 0
Czech 10 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 50 45 0 0 0
Russian 50 45 0 0 5
Serbian 15 15 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 30 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 180 175 0 5 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 40 40 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 115 110 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,060 1,825 0 35 200
Indo-Aryan languages 1,975 1,750 0 25 195
Bengali 15 15 0 0 0
Gujarati 55 40 0 0 5
Hindi 175 160 0 0 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,410 1,225 0 15 170
Sindhi 35 35 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 15 0 0 0
Urdu 270 250 0 5 10
Iranian languages 75 65 0 5 5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 60 55 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 475 435 0 30 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 70 70 0 5 5
Portuguese 100 85 0 5 0
Romanian 40 40 0 5 0
Spanish 260 240 0 15 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 45 35 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 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 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) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 10 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 285 250 0 0 30
Chinese languages 280 245 0 0 35
Cantonese 160 145 0 0 10
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 75 70 0 0 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 15 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 35 30 0 5 0
Lao 25 20 0 5 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 30 30 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 30 25 0 0 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 35 35 0 0 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 35 30 0 0 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 645 585 0 55 10
English and French 35 10 0 25 0
English and non-official language 580 565 0 10 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0

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Footnote(s)

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

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