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 Chatham-Kent
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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 1 101,085 93,395 80 7,045 565
Single responses 100,145 92,800 75 6,705 565
Official languages 91,755 85,180 70 6,500 10
English 89,210 84,840 0 4,355 15
French 2,545 340 65 2,145 0
Non-official languages 8,390 7,615 5 210 555
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 15 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 5 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 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 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 8,370 7,600 10 210 555
Afro-Asiatic languages 125 100 0 15 5
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 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 120 100 0 15 5
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 85 65 0 15 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 25 25 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 215 175 0 5 35
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 210 170 0 5 35
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 130 130 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 105 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 5 0 0 5
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 75 70 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 40 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0 0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,175 6,565 10 155 450
Albanian 5 10 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 855 820 5 25 5
Baltic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 840 810 0 25 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0 5
Czech 140 135 0 5 5
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 0
Polish 375 360 0 15 5
Russian 40 40 0 0 0
Serbian 30 30 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 80 80 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 95 85 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 5 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 4,350 4,040 5 45 260
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Dutch 1,170 1,150 0 20 5
Frisian 35 30 0 0 0
German 2,980 2,695 5 20 255
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 130 125 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 130 125 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 375 350 0 10 20
Indo-Aryan languages 335 310 0 5 20
Bengali 25 20 0 0 5
Gujarati 50 40 0 0 5
Hindi 40 45 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 10 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 55 50 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 140 130 0 5 5
Iranian languages 40 40 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,445 1,210 0 75 155
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 470 425 0 25 20
Portuguese 615 520 0 25 70
Romanian 65 55 0 5 5
Spanish 295 215 0 20 60
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 105 100 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 30 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 5 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 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 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 250 205 0 15 30
Chinese languages 240 195 0 10 30
Cantonese 85 75 0 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 90 0 5 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 25 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 10 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 30 25 0 0 5
Lao 15 10 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 155 150 0 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 145 135 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 935 595 0 340 5
English and French 360 85 0 275 0
English and non-official language 540 500 0 35 0
French and non-official language 15 0 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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