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 Niagara
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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 1 440,960 403,820 400 33,855 2,890
Single responses 434,575 399,340 385 31,980 2,875
Official languages 373,840 344,515 320 28,940 65
English 361,355 343,560 15 17,725 65
French 12,480 955 305 11,215 0
Non-official languages 60,745 54,825 65 3,035 2,810
Aboriginal languages 70 60 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 40 30 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 10 0 5 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. 5 5 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 25 20 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 25 20 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 15 15 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 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 60,675 54,765 65 3,025 2,815
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,850 2,385 5 285 175
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 5
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 170 155 0 5 10
Bilen 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 160 145 0 0 10
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,675 2,225 10 280 165
Amharic 55 50 0 5 0
Arabic 2,305 1,880 5 260 160
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 60 55 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 65 60 0 10 0
Maltese 125 125 0 5 0
Tigrigna 45 40 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 945 810 0 35 105
Khmer (Cambodian) 190 160 0 15 15
Vietnamese 755 645 0 20 85
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,225 2,185 0 20 15
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 95 90 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 30 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 95 90 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 45 45 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 20 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,920 1,890 0 15 15
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 230 75 20 125 10
Haitian Creole 30 5 5 20 5
Creole, n.o.s. 170 45 15 100 10
Creole languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 485 465 0 10 10
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 285 280 0 5 5
Tamil 140 135 0 5 5
Telugu 40 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 44,300 40,395 30 2,180 1,700
Albanian 180 170 5 0 0
Armenian 230 185 0 35 10
Balto-Slavic languages 11,480 10,560 0 550 360
Baltic languages 270 240 0 25 5
Latvian 125 110 0 10 5
Lithuanian 145 130 0 10 0
Slavic languages 11,210 10,320 0 530 355
Belarusan 15 10 0 0 5
Bosnian 200 185 0 0 10
Bulgarian 325 280 5 25 15
Croatian 1,125 1,070 0 40 15
Czech 315 300 0 20 0
Macedonian 100 90 0 5 5
Polish 3,885 3,600 0 150 135
Russian 1,150 1,015 0 80 60
Serbian 1,455 1,290 5 85 80
Serbo-Croatian 135 120 0 10 5
Slovak 445 435 0 5 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 380 370 0 10 0
Ukrainian 1,635 1,505 0 100 25
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 40 0 0 0
Celtic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 15 15 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 10,710 10,225 0 405 80
Afrikaans 120 115 0 5 0
Danish 160 160 0 5 0
Dutch 4,125 4,005 5 115 0
Frisian 85 80 0 5 0
German 6,040 5,710 0 260 75
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 5 0
Swedish 75 70 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 45 40 0 5 0
Yiddish 15 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Greek 835 770 0 35 30
Indo-Iranian languages 3,880 3,550 5 140 185
Indo-Aryan languages 3,135 2,885 0 95 145
Bengali 175 175 0 5 0
Gujarati 605 525 0 20 55
Hindi 465 435 0 25 5
Kashmiri 10 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 55 55 0 0 0
Nepali 45 40 0 5 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 685 615 0 15 55
Sindhi 35 30 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 75 0 0 0
Urdu 985 930 0 25 20
Iranian languages 705 625 0 40 45
Kurdish 210 175 0 10 25
Pashto 50 45 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 450 405 5 25 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 16,955 14,910 15 995 1,025
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 10,735 9,695 15 500 520
Portuguese 1,080 960 0 70 50
Romanian 465 370 0 85 15
Spanish 4,645 3,860 5 340 440
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Japanese 335 305 0 15 15
Kartvelian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Georgian 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 1,290 1,150 0 35 105
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 545 445 10 80 10
Akan (Twi) 80 70 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 10 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 15 5 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 0 0 20 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 125 115 0 0 0
Swahili 100 80 0 15 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 60 55 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 65 5 15 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 85 70 0 0 20
American Sign Language 45 40 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 40 25 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,665 3,985 0 110 570
Chinese languages 4,635 3,960 0 105 565
Cantonese 1,260 990 5 40 230
Hakka 15 15 0 0 0
Mandarin 2,930 2,580 0 60 290
Min Dong 0 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 95 80 0 0 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 50 40 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 290 255 0 10 30
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 30 25 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 0 0 0 10
Tibetan 15 20 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 335 295 0 10 35
Lao 255 220 0 10 25
Thai 80 70 0 0 15
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 355 315 0 30 15
Azerbaijani 20 20 0 0 0
Turkish 310 270 0 30 10
Uyghur 15 10 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 1,965 1,845 0 85 35
Estonian 125 125 0 5 0
Finnish 150 135 0 10 0
Hungarian 1,695 1,595 0 65 40
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 5 0
Multiple responses 6,380 4,480 15 1,875 15
English and French 1,715 375 5 1,340 0
English and non-official language 4,335 4,040 0 285 10
French and non-official language 185 30 10 140 0
English, French and non-official language 150 25 0 120 0

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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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