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 Lambton
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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 1 125,220 117,035 45 7,845 290
Single responses 124,150 116,315 45 7,500 290
Official languages 115,985 108,815 45 7,110 15
English 113,625 108,550 0 5,060 15
French 2,360 270 40 2,050 0
Non-official languages 8,170 7,495 0 390 275
Aboriginal languages 140 135 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 130 125 0 5 5
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 130 120 0 5 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 125 115 0 5 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 8,025 7,365 0 385 275
Afro-Asiatic languages 265 205 0 35 25
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 260 200 0 30 25
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 220 160 0 30 25
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 75 70 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 5 5
Vietnamese 70 65 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 250 240 0 0 10
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 210 205 0 0 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 0 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 5 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 135 140 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0 0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0
Telugu 40 35 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,470 5,990 0 305 170
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Armenian 20 15 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 945 890 0 45 10
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 20 0 5 0
Slavic languages 910 860 0 45 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 70 65 0 0 0
Czech 75 75 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 15 0 0 0
Polish 380 365 0 15 5
Russian 75 60 0 10 0
Serbian 30 30 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Slovak 125 125 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 100 90 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 15 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,550 2,445 0 90 15
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 50 45 0 0 0
Dutch 1,505 1,460 0 40 0
Frisian 50 45 0 0 0
German 860 810 0 35 15
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 50 40 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 210 195 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages 770 715 0 15 40
Indo-Aryan languages 680 630 0 15 35
Bengali 25 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 275 240 0 5 25
Hindi 115 110 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 10 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 5 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 120 110 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 105 105 0 5 5
Iranian languages 85 80 0 0 0
Kurdish 10 15 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 65 60 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,945 1,705 0 140 95
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 980 880 0 70 35
Portuguese 440 395 0 15 25
Romanian 55 45 0 10 0
Spanish 465 385 0 40 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 25 15 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 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 45 40 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) 5 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) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 20 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 5 0 0 15
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 5 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 400 350 0 15 40
Chinese languages 380 325 0 15 40
Cantonese 150 145 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 185 145 0 5 30
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 20 20 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 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 30 25 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 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 170 165 0 5 0
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 40 40 0 0 0
Hungarian 120 115 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,065 720 0 350 0
English and French 345 80 0 265 0
English and non-official language 670 625 0 45 0
French and non-official language 25 5 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 30 5 0 25 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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