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 London, CY
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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 1 379,435 345,325 225 27,795 6,090
Single responses 371,865 339,450 200 26,170 6,045
Official languages 293,545 271,740 130 21,570 95
English 288,795 271,325 10 17,360 95
French 4,755 415 130 4,210 5
Non-official languages 78,325 67,715 65 4,595 5,945
Aboriginal languages 130 120 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 55 55 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 5 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 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 50 45 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 45 45 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 55 50 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 5 0 0 0
Oneida 50 45 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 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. 15 15 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 78,195 67,595 65 4,595 5,945
Afro-Asiatic languages 13,015 10,505 15 745 1,745
Berber languages 15 5 0 15 0
Kabyle 10 0 0 10 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 260 220 0 25 10
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 15 10 0 0 5
Somali 235 200 0 30 10
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 12,720 10,270 15 705 1,735
Amharic 260 250 0 5 5
Arabic 10,585 8,430 10 650 1,485
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 1,040 825 0 30 190
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 210 170 0 5 35
Harari 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 135 130 0 10 0
Maltese 190 180 0 0 0
Tigrigna 250 235 0 0 15
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 2,505 2,070 5 70 360
Khmer (Cambodian) 770 640 0 30 100
Vietnamese 1,735 1,425 0 40 265
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,880 1,840 0 30 15
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 75 75 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 165 165 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 130 125 0 0 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,445 1,415 0 25 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 70 40 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 5 0 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 1,345 1,260 0 40 45
Kannada 55 50 0 0 5
Malayalam 820 775 0 20 30
Tamil 320 295 0 15 15
Telugu 140 140 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 44,840 39,145 30 3,130 2,540
Albanian 1,005 885 0 30 90
Armenian 90 70 0 10 10
Balto-Slavic languages 11,175 10,030 0 710 435
Baltic languages 215 190 0 20 0
Latvian 70 60 0 10 0
Lithuanian 145 135 0 10 0
Slavic languages 10,960 9,835 5 690 430
Belarusan 10 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 610 570 0 15 35
Bulgarian 75 50 0 25 0
Croatian 785 730 0 30 25
Czech 350 310 0 30 5
Macedonian 90 75 0 5 5
Polish 5,165 4,710 0 255 200
Russian 1,320 1,095 0 145 80
Serbian 805 710 0 65 30
Serbo-Croatian 330 300 0 15 15
Slovak 305 285 0 25 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 205 195 0 10 0
Ukrainian 875 780 0 60 40
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 0
Celtic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,115 4,755 5 350 10
Afrikaans 60 65 0 5 0
Danish 170 160 0 10 0
Dutch 2,025 1,920 0 100 5
Frisian 40 35 0 0 0
German 2,560 2,350 0 205 0
Icelandic 10 10 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 65 55 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 135 115 0 20 0
Yiddish 25 20 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 1,755 1,600 0 85 70
Indo-Iranian languages 8,650 7,530 10 385 725
Indo-Aryan languages 5,555 4,810 5 235 505
Bengali 455 410 0 20 25
Gujarati 705 635 0 20 45
Hindi 825 775 0 35 15
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 30 30 0 5 0
Marathi 80 75 0 0 5
Nepali 720 345 0 55 325
Oriya (Odia) 10 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,040 955 0 35 45
Sindhi 60 45 0 10 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 125 115 0 10 5
Urdu 1,500 1,410 0 40 50
Iranian languages 3,065 2,690 5 150 215
Kurdish 990 870 0 35 90
Pashto 180 150 0 15 15
Persian (Farsi) 1,890 1,665 5 100 115
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 17,020 14,250 15 1,555 1,205
Catalan 15 5 0 5 0
Italian 2,930 2,605 0 225 95
Portuguese 4,605 3,900 0 220 480
Romanian 805 575 5 205 30
Spanish 8,660 7,150 10 900 600
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Japanese 230 200 0 10 20
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 2,695 2,360 0 110 225
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 655 505 15 125 15
Akan (Twi) 70 65 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 0 0 0 0
Ewe 15 10 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 5 0 0
Ga 20 15 0 5 0
Ganda 20 20 0 0 0
Igbo 45 45 0 5 0
Lingala 20 0 5 15 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 0 5 30 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 40 15 0 20 0
Shona 40 40 0 0 0
Swahili 130 105 0 15 5
Wolof 10 5 0 5 0
Yoruba 65 55 0 5 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 150 125 0 20 10
Nilo-Saharan languages 200 175 0 10 5
Dinka 110 90 0 15 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 90 85 0 0 0
Sign languages 165 90 0 5 65
American Sign Language 95 60 0 5 30
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 70 30 0 0 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 8,720 7,665 5 205 845
Chinese languages 8,475 7,475 0 205 795
Cantonese 1,960 1,660 0 50 250
Hakka 25 20 0 0 0
Mandarin 5,830 5,200 5 140 480
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 125 100 0 5 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 95 85 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 435 395 0 5 35
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 250 195 0 0 50
Burmese 25 25 0 0 5
Karenic languages 200 160 0 0 40
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 190 170 0 5 5
Lao 120 105 0 5 5
Thai 65 60 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 440 405 0 10 25
Azerbaijani 45 40 0 5 5
Turkish 330 305 0 10 15
Uyghur 30 30 0 0 5
Uzbek 10 5 0 0 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Uralic languages 1,195 1,105 0 65 20
Estonian 45 40 0 5 0
Finnish 95 90 0 5 0
Hungarian 1,050 975 0 60 25
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 65 55 0 5 5
Multiple responses 7,565 5,875 25 1,620 50
English and French 1,040 225 0 810 5
English and non-official language 6,055 5,555 0 455 45
French and non-official language 235 55 15 170 5
English, French and non-official language 240 45 5 190 0

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

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