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 Québec
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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 1 560,310 1,390 330,780 226,265 1,870
Single responses 554,295 1,325 328,645 222,480 1,840
Official languages 527,105 615 315,320 211,120 50
English 7,865 580 305 6,975 0
French 519,245 35 315,015 204,150 40
Non-official languages 27,190 710 13,320 11,355 1,795
Aboriginal languages 585 10 460 105 15
Algonquian languages 575 10 455 100 10
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 565 10 450 90 15
Atikamekw 45 0 30 5 5
Montagnais (Innu) 510 5 420 85 10
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 5 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 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. 5 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 10 0 5 5 0
Algonquin 15 0 5 10 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 10 0 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 0 0 5 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 26,595 700 12,865 11,255 1,780
Afro-Asiatic languages 5,545 55 2,700 2,415 380
Berber languages 685 0 410 255 20
Kabyle 360 0 230 115 15
Berber languages, n.i.e. 330 0 175 145 10
Cushitic languages 45 0 20 25 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 0 20 20 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages 4,790 55 2,250 2,130 355
Amharic 5 0 5 0 0
Arabic 4,765 55 2,240 2,115 350
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 5 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 5 5 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 0 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 30 0 20 5 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,170 20 535 500 110
Khmer (Cambodian) 380 0 210 125 35
Vietnamese 790 20 320 370 70
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 5 0 0
Austronesian languages 320 35 95 185 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 5 0 15 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 180 0 85 85 5
Malay 20 5 5 15 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 20 0 55 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 0 5 10 0
Creole languages 530 0 320 200 10
Haitian Creole 45 0 25 20 0
Creole, n.o.s. 480 0 295 170 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 35 10 0 15 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 5
Tamil 20 5 0 15 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 14,395 345 7,040 6,145 870
Albanian 210 0 130 50 20
Armenian 60 0 15 50 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,400 60 1,160 1,075 110
Baltic languages 20 10 0 10 0
Latvian 10 0 5 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,380 55 1,155 1,065 110
Belarusan 0 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 615 5 370 190 50
Bulgarian 225 0 115 100 5
Croatian 90 0 45 45 10
Czech 30 5 5 20 0
Macedonian 10 0 5 10 0
Polish 245 5 85 155 5
Russian 605 20 270 290 25
Serbian 155 5 75 70 0
Serbo-Croatian 270 5 135 120 10
Slovak 15 0 10 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 105 5 50 50 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Celtic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Germanic languages 580 25 55 490 10
Afrikaans 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 10 0 0 10 0
Dutch 105 5 10 90 5
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 410 20 35 350 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 30 5 0 25 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 0 5 10 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Greek 85 0 20 70 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,605 170 560 545 335
Indo-Aryan languages 1,025 90 400 260 275
Bengali 70 20 10 25 10
Gujarati 20 0 5 15 5
Hindi 35 20 0 20 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 5 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Nepali 845 35 380 175 260
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 5 0 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 5 0
Urdu 25 10 0 15 5
Iranian languages 485 70 125 260 30
Kurdish 45 10 20 10 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 435 65 100 255 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 95 10 35 20 30
Italic (Romance) languages 9,450 85 5,100 3,865 395
Catalan 15 0 0 10 0
Italian 520 5 225 290 0
Portuguese 1,515 25 770 655 65
Romanian 790 5 325 440 20
Spanish 6,605 60 3,780 2,460 310
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Japanese 145 25 25 85 5
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Georgian 5 0 5 0 0
Korean 25 0 5 20 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 2,680 25 1,605 945 105
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 70 0 45 25 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 50 0 30 15 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 155 0 105 40 10
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 5 0
Lingala 110 0 75 35 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 460 5 280 150 25
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 305 5 145 140 5
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 490 5 320 150 20
Wolof 275 5 130 140 5
Yoruba 10 0 5 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 750 5 480 230 35
Nilo-Saharan languages 30 0 15 10 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 0 15 10 5
Sign languages 100 0 50 10 45
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 60 0 20 10 25
Sign languages, n.i.e 45 0 25 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,215 160 345 510 205
Chinese languages 1,115 155 315 495 150
Cantonese 245 30 60 115 40
Hakka 0 0 5 0 0
Mandarin 735 110 225 310 90
Min Dong 0 0 5 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 0 10 20 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 5 0 10 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 10 15 40 15
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 100 5 30 15 50
Burmese 15 5 0 5 5
Karenic languages 70 0 20 5 40
Tibetan 5 0 5 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 145 5 60 70 10
Lao 85 5 45 35 5
Thai 55 5 10 35 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 5 0
Turkic languages 75 5 15 50 0
Azerbaijani 20 5 5 15 5
Turkish 50 5 15 30 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 5 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 120 10 35 70 0
Estonian 5 0 0 5 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 110 5 35 65 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 60 0 30 20 10
Multiple responses 6,015 65 2,135 3,785 30
English and French 2,780 10 310 2,455 0
English and non-official language 210 50 10 140 0
French and non-official language 2,775 5 1,790 955 25
English, French and non-official language 255 0 20 230 5

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

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