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 Kitimat-Stikine
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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 37,060 34,770 40 2,110 145
Single responses 36,485 34,300 40 2,005 145
Official languages 31,960 30,025 35 1,890 10
English 31,185 29,960 0 1,215 10
French 780 65 35 680 0
Non-official languages 4,525 4,270 5 115 130
Aboriginal languages 1,355 1,345 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 15 10 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 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 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 185 180 0 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 185 180 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 85 85 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 25 20 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 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 5 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 75 75 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 75 70 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages 5 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 5 5 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. 5 5 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 1,065 1,055 0 10 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 735 735 0 5 0
Nisga'a 285 280 0 5 0
Tsimshian 45 45 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 90 85 0 0 0
Haisla 85 80 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 5 5 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 3,165 2,925 5 105 130
Afro-Asiatic languages 20 15 0 5 0
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 20 15 0 5 0
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 10 5 5 0
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 25 25 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 215 210 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 170 170 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 35 40 0 0 5
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 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 2,550 2,365 0 85 100
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 195 180 0 10 5
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 190 175 0 10 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 15 10 0 5 0
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 60 50 0 5 0
Russian 55 45 0 0 5
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 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 850 805 0 40 5
Afrikaans 55 55 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 5 0
Dutch 125 115 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 580 550 5 25 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 365 335 0 0 35
Indo-Aryan languages 360 330 0 0 30
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0 0
Hindi 35 35 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 295 270 0 0 30
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,105 1,015 0 30 60
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 125 115 0 5 0
Portuguese 845 785 0 5 60
Romanian 10 10 0 0 0
Spanish 130 110 0 15 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 55 45 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 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 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 120 105 0 5 15
Chinese languages 120 100 0 5 15
Cantonese 50 45 0 5 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0 0 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 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 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 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 85 80 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 60 55 0 5 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 575 470 0 105 0
English and French 105 35 0 75 0
English and non-official language 445 430 0 20 0
French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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

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