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

Data table

Select data categories for this table

Filter geography – Can. / N.L.   P.E.I.   N.S.   N.B.   Que.   Ont.   Man.   Sask.   Alta.   B.C.   Y.T.   N.W.T.   Nvt.


This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Algoma
Data quality
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 1 112,725 98,225 405 13,730 370
Single responses 111,370 97,455 400 13,140 365
Official languages 102,660 89,470 395 12,775 20
English 95,835 89,010 0 6,805 15
French 6,830 455 395 5,975 0
Non-official languages 8,710 7,990 5 370 350
Aboriginal languages 515 510 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 505 490 0 10 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 15 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 10 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 485 475 0 5 0
Algonquin 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 480 475 0 10 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 5 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 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. 10 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 8,190 7,480 5 360 350
Afro-Asiatic languages 230 215 0 15 5
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 225 210 0 10 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 215 205 0 10 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 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 25 20 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 25 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 65 60 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 5 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 55 55 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 15 20 0 0 0
Telugu 25 25 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,555 5,955 5 300 295
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 955 895 0 50 10
Baltic languages 65 55 0 5 5
Latvian 25 25 0 5 0
Lithuanian 40 35 0 5 0
Slavic languages 890 835 0 45 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 145 135 0 5 0
Czech 45 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 10 10 0 0 0
Polish 375 345 0 20 10
Russian 30 25 0 5 0
Serbian 10 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 40 30 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 40 0 0 0
Ukrainian 190 180 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,455 1,320 0 75 55
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0 0
Danish 40 30 0 5 0
Dutch 230 215 0 10 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 1,095 995 0 45 55
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 5 0
Swedish 35 35 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 10 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 40 45 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 290 270 0 10 10
Indo-Aryan languages 265 245 0 10 5
Bengali 45 40 0 0 0
Gujarati 80 65 0 5 5
Hindi 70 70 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 25 25 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 10 15 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,800 3,420 0 170 215
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 3,365 3,060 0 110 205
Portuguese 205 185 0 10 10
Romanian 20 10 0 5 0
Spanish 210 165 0 45 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 20 25 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 5 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 35 30 5 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 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 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 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 25 15 0 0 5
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 250 220 0 5 25
Chinese languages 240 220 0 5 20
Cantonese 95 85 0 5 15
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 110 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 20 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 0 0 0 5
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 10 5 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 875 840 0 25 10
Estonian 90 85 0 5 0
Finnish 680 655 0 10 10
Hungarian 110 95 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,355 765 0 585 5
English and French 660 140 0 525 0
English and non-official language 650 605 0 40 5
French and non-official language 30 20 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 10 0 10 0

Symbol(s)

Symbol ..

not available for a specific reference period

..

Symbol ...

not applicable

...

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

x

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

F

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

Return to footnote 1 referrer

Data quality note(s) – Algoma

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.8%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

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

Date modified: