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 Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Data quality
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 1 515,680 488,800 115 25,945 815
Single responses 513,980 487,710 115 25,355 805
Official languages 502,060 477,245 95 24,640 80
English 499,705 477,010 10 22,605 75
French 2,350 230 90 2,030 0
Non-official languages 11,920 10,460 15 715 730
Aboriginal languages 2,620 2,450 5 40 125
Algonquian languages 2,125 1,970 5 35 120
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 2,120 1,960 5 35 120
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 1,510 1,410 5 30 65
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 600 545 0 0 60
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. 10 10 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 5 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 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 485 475 0 0 10
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 435 425 0 0 10
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 50 50 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 5 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 9,300 8,020 10 675 600
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,295 940 5 90 255
Berber languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 45 40 0 0 5
Bilen 10 5 0 0 0
Oromo 30 35 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,245 895 5 95 250
Amharic 25 20 0 0 5
Arabic 1,140 800 5 90 245
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 65 55 0 5 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 55 50 0 10 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 55 45 0 10 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,115 1,090 0 15 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 55 55 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 25 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 975 955 5 15 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 35 20 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 5 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 270 265 0 5 5
Kannada 10 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 100 100 0 5 0
Tamil 110 110 0 5 0
Telugu 50 45 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 4,020 3,480 0 425 110
Albanian 85 70 0 5 15
Armenian 10 5 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 585 505 5 75 10
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 575 495 5 70 10
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 60 50 0 10 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0 0
Czech 35 30 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 105 90 0 15 0
Russian 215 190 0 25 5
Serbian 30 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 40 40 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 15 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages 715 600 0 105 5
Afrikaans 55 50 0 0 0
Danish 55 50 0 5 0
Dutch 110 90 0 20 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 380 310 0 65 5
Icelandic 30 30 0 0 0
Norwegian 55 50 0 5 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 5
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Greek 55 50 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,640 1,520 0 70 50
Indo-Aryan languages 1,330 1,230 0 65 35
Bengali 325 315 0 10 5
Gujarati 70 65 0 5 0
Hindi 175 165 0 10 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 0 0
Nepali 140 125 0 0 15
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 215 195 0 20 0
Sindhi 25 15 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 70 70 0 0 0
Urdu 285 255 0 20 5
Iranian languages 280 250 0 10 15
Kurdish 15 5 0 0 5
Pashto 30 25 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 235 220 0 10 15
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 915 715 0 165 30
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Italian 105 85 0 25 0
Portuguese 165 125 0 30 10
Romanian 45 25 0 20 0
Spanish 595 475 0 95 25
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 45 40 5 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 125 115 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 315 255 0 35 25
Akan (Twi) 30 30 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 30 30 0 0 0
Swahili 55 25 0 5 20
Wolof 10 10 0 0 0
Yoruba 60 60 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 70 60 0 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 0 5 5
Dinka 10 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Sign languages 120 55 0 0 65
American Sign Language 50 30 0 0 20
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 75 25 0 0 50
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,620 1,470 0 30 115
Chinese languages 1,595 1,450 0 30 115
Cantonese 360 295 0 15 50
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0
Mandarin 990 925 0 15 50
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 30 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 190 170 0 0 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 30 25 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 50 50 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 45 45 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 60 0 10 0
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0
Turkish 45 40 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 15 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 90 70 0 20 0
Estonian 20 10 0 5 0
Finnish 20 15 0 5 0
Hungarian 55 45 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,700 1,090 5 590 15
English and French 580 135 0 445 0
English and non-official language 1,025 945 0 70 15
French and non-official language 55 5 5 50 0
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 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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Data quality note(s) – Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

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

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