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 Roussillon
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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 1 170,835 7,770 68,060 94,210 790
Single responses 166,675 7,605 67,385 90,910 775
Official languages 150,330 5,860 63,335 81,115 25
English 19,115 5,805 65 13,240 10
French 131,215 60 63,265 67,875 15
Non-official languages 16,345 1,745 4,050 9,800 750
Aboriginal languages 30 15 5 10 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 5 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 5 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 5 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 5 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 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 5 0 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 20 15 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 15 15 0 5 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 16,315 1,730 4,050 9,785 745
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,170 90 820 1,190 75
Berber languages 385 0 215 165 10
Kabyle 190 0 105 80 5
Berber languages, n.i.e. 195 0 105 85 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,780 85 605 1,015 65
Amharic 10 5 0 0 0
Arabic 1,745 80 605 995 65
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 0 5 15 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 340 20 70 230 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 130 5 40 75 20
Vietnamese 210 15 30 155 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 215 90 20 105 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 5 0
Malagasy 50 0 20 30 0
Malay 10 5 0 10 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 65 0 60 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 510 5 145 355 10
Haitian Creole 15 0 0 10 0
Creole, n.o.s. 465 5 140 310 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 30 0 5 25 0
Dravidian languages 30 15 0 15 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 20 5 0 10 0
Telugu 5 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 10,910 975 2,560 6,925 450
Albanian 10 0 5 5 0
Armenian 45 0 0 40 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,345 290 555 1,365 130
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,335 285 555 1,360 130
Belarusan 10 0 5 5 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 5 0
Bulgarian 290 10 50 210 10
Croatian 45 10 0 30 0
Czech 25 0 10 15 0
Macedonian 10 0 5 5 0
Polish 450 65 55 320 15
Russian 1,280 155 395 630 90
Serbian 30 5 5 15 5
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 10 0
Slovak 20 5 0 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 5 0 15 0
Ukrainian 135 15 30 85 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 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 375 140 15 215 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Dutch 60 25 5 35 0
Frisian 5 0 0 5 0
German 280 105 10 155 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5 0
Swedish 5 0 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 0 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 380 100 5 265 10
Indo-Iranian languages 860 250 75 460 75
Indo-Aryan languages 420 180 15 190 30
Bengali 140 55 10 65 15
Gujarati 25 10 0 20 0
Hindi 20 10 0 15 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 155 75 5 60 15
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 5 0
Urdu 65 30 0 30 5
Iranian languages 425 65 60 260 45
Kurdish 15 0 5 5 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 410 65 55 250 40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 10 0
Italic (Romance) languages 6,890 185 1,900 4,575 230
Catalan 10 0 0 5 0
Italian 1,230 45 110 1,055 20
Portuguese 865 25 235 585 20
Romanian 1,335 30 385 890 40
Spanish 3,450 90 1,170 2,045 150
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 15 0 20 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 25 0 15 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 575 55 215 305 5
Akan (Twi) 20 5 0 10 0
Bamanankan 50 0 20 25 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 15 0 10 10 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 30 0 20 10 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Lingala 30 0 20 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 90 5 35 55 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 65 0 15 45 0
Shona 5 0 0 5 0
Swahili 50 10 10 25 0
Wolof 45 0 15 30 5
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 155 10 70 75 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 0 5 5 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 10 0 5 5 5
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,120 385 140 445 155
Chinese languages 1,120 385 140 445 150
Cantonese 305 90 25 145 50
Hakka 10 5 5 5 5
Mandarin 715 270 105 255 85
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 5 5 25 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 0 5 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 10 5 15 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 65 5 20 35 0
Lao 55 5 20 35 5
Thai 10 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 160 25 40 75 15
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 5 0
Turkish 105 15 30 55 10
Uyghur 45 10 15 15 5
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Uralic languages 115 30 15 65 5
Estonian 0 0 0 5 0
Finnish 5 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 105 30 20 60 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 4,160 170 675 3,300 15
English and French 2,375 35 100 2,230 0
English and non-official language 405 120 5 285 0
French and non-official language 1,075 0 550 515 10
English, French and non-official language 305 10 20 270 0

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

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