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 York
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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 98,535 76,840 330 20,685 680
Single responses 97,280 76,415 330 19,855 680
Official languages 90,930 71,500 300 19,120 15
English 84,375 71,280 5 13,080 15
French 6,555 220 300 6,035 0
Non-official languages 6,350 4,920 25 735 665
Aboriginal languages 115 110 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 110 105 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 105 100 0 5 0
Malecite 80 75 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 30 25 0 5 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 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 6,235 4,810 25 735 665
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,060 570 5 130 355
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 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,055 570 5 125 355
Amharic 35 40 0 5 0
Arabic 950 475 5 115 355
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 60 55 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 195 165 0 15 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 190 165 0 15 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 195 180 0 5 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 15 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 145 135 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 80 75 0 5 5
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 45 40 0 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,740 2,210 5 400 125
Albanian 25 20 0 0 0
Armenian 10 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 695 570 5 80 45
Baltic languages 20 10 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Slavic languages 675 560 5 75 45
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 30 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 5 0 5 0
Croatian 35 30 0 5 0
Czech 10 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 55 40 0 15 0
Russian 380 320 0 25 30
Serbian 75 70 0 10 5
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 5 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 45 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 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 670 525 0 140 5
Afrikaans 5 5 0 5 0
Danish 20 20 0 0 0
Dutch 240 195 0 45 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 360 280 0 80 5
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 20 10 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 15 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 825 720 0 55 55
Indo-Aryan languages 480 420 0 25 30
Bengali 80 80 0 5 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 5 0
Hindi 100 95 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 5 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Nepali 145 110 0 5 25
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 25 25 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 60 55 0 5 0
Iranian languages 345 295 0 30 25
Kurdish 15 0 0 0 10
Pashto 15 15 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 310 280 0 25 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 485 350 5 120 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 40 0 20 0
Portuguese 65 45 0 15 5
Romanian 70 35 0 20 15
Spanish 295 225 5 65 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 340 285 0 35 20
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 150 75 5 60 10
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 10 0 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 50 15 5 25 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 25 0 10 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 30 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,275 1,085 0 70 125
Chinese languages 1,275 1,080 0 65 130
Cantonese 120 90 0 15 15
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,015 865 0 40 105
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 55 45 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 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 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 40 30 5 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 25 25 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Uralic languages 60 50 0 10 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 40 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,260 420 5 830 5
English and French 785 70 0 715 0
English and non-official language 400 340 0 60 0
French and non-official language 45 5 0 35 0
English, French and non-official language 35 5 0 25 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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