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 Lakeshore, T
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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 36,380 29,835 35 6,355 155
Single responses 35,750 29,545 35 6,020 150
Official languages 32,030 26,220 30 5,780 0
English 29,715 26,040 0 3,675 0
French 2,315 185 30 2,105 0
Non-official languages 3,720 3,320 0 240 150
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 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 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. 0 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 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 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 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 3,720 3,320 5 245 150
Afro-Asiatic languages 310 255 0 50 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 0 0 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 310 255 5 50 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 245 195 0 45 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 15 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 40 40 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 85 75 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 80 70 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 65 60 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60 55 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,875 2,585 0 175 115
Albanian 30 30 0 0 5
Armenian 25 20 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 955 890 0 35 30
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 945 880 0 35 30
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 135 130 0 5 0
Czech 15 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 195 180 0 5 10
Polish 225 210 0 10 5
Russian 35 30 0 5 5
Serbian 225 205 0 10 10
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 65 60 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 25 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 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 475 435 0 15 20
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0
Dutch 55 50 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 405 375 0 10 20
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 55 50 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 450 385 0 20 40
Indo-Aryan languages 410 355 0 20 35
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 5
Hindi 30 30 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 265 220 0 15 25
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 65 55 0 5 5
Iranian languages 30 25 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 890 770 0 95 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 535 470 0 50 15
Portuguese 75 75 0 5 0
Romanian 165 135 0 25 5
Spanish 105 90 0 15 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 5 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 20 20 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 150 130 0 5 15
Chinese languages 145 130 0 5 10
Cantonese 65 55 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 55 50 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 20 0 0 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 30 25 0 0 0
Lao 30 25 0 0 5
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 40 40 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 35 0 5 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 85 80 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 75 75 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 630 290 0 330 5
English and French 340 65 0 270 0
English and non-official language 265 220 0 50 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 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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