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 Kamloops, 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 88,855 83,410 15 5,015 415
Single responses 87,995 82,730 15 4,840 410
Official languages 79,925 75,345 10 4,540 25
English 78,935 75,195 0 3,710 25
French 990 150 10 835 0
Non-official languages 8,065 7,385 0 300 385
Aboriginal languages 100 90 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 35 30 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 10 10 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 20 20 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 5 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 20 20 0 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 20 15 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 5 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 0 0 0
Chilcotin 10 10 0 0 0
Dene 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 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 35 30 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) 25 20 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 10 10 0 5 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 5 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 7,970 7,290 5 290 380
Afro-Asiatic languages 215 180 0 10 25
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 5 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 210 175 0 10 25
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 205 170 0 10 25
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 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 100 95 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 90 90 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 505 500 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 20 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 30 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0
Malay 15 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 425 420 0 0 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 10 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 75 75 0 0 5
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0 5
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 5,410 4,950 0 235 225
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 930 875 0 45 10
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 925 875 0 40 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 0
Croatian 100 95 0 5 0
Czech 45 45 0 10 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 185 180 0 10 0
Russian 215 205 0 10 0
Serbian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 25 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 245 235 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,450 1,350 0 85 15
Afrikaans 70 65 0 5 0
Danish 55 55 0 0 0
Dutch 240 230 0 10 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,015 935 0 65 15
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 30 30 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 55 55 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,590 1,390 0 40 155
Indo-Aryan languages 1,535 1,350 0 45 150
Bengali 50 45 0 5 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 0
Hindi 175 165 0 5 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,195 1,025 0 30 140
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 15 0 0 0
Urdu 50 45 0 0 0
Iranian languages 50 45 0 0 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 40 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,365 1,255 0 65 50
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 920 855 0 25 35
Portuguese 145 145 0 0 0
Romanian 25 20 0 0 5
Spanish 285 235 0 30 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 200 185 0 5 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 215 185 0 0 30
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 70 0 5 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 5 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 5 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 20 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 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 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 900 805 0 15 70
Chinese languages 895 805 0 15 75
Cantonese 300 260 0 5 35
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 485 445 0 10 25
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 25 15 0 5 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 5 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 70 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 25 25 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 30 30 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 175 170 0 10 0
Estonian 5 10 0 5 0
Finnish 55 55 0 0 0
Hungarian 110 110 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 5 0
Multiple responses 865 685 0 175 5
English and French 175 45 0 125 0
English and non-official language 670 630 0 30 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0

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

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