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 High River, 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 13,390 12,645 5 685 55
Single responses 13,185 12,475 0 665 50
Official languages 11,515 10,880 5 635 0
English 11,335 10,860 0 475 0
French 175 20 5 155 0
Non-official languages 1,675 1,590 0 35 45
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 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 0 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. 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 1,670 1,590 0 35 45
Afro-Asiatic languages 75 70 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 5
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 70 65 0 5 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 60 55 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 35 30 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 20 0 0 5
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 745 740 0 5 5
Bikol 25 25 0 0 0
Cebuano 55 55 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 35 35 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 590 585 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 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 10 10 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 710 655 0 30 25
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 95 85 0 10 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 95 85 0 5 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 20 0 0 0
Russian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbian 0 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 5 0 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 35 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 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 275 260 0 10 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 5 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 70 70 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 180 170 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 65 60 0 0 5
Indo-Aryan languages 65 60 0 0 5
Bengali 10 10 0 0 5
Gujarati 5 10 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 5 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 25 25 0 0 5
Iranian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 270 250 0 5 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 10 10 0 0 0
Portuguese 10 10 0 5 0
Romanian 5 5 0 5 0
Spanish 240 225 0 0 20
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 5 0 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 10 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 30 25 0 0 5
Chinese languages 30 25 0 0 5
Cantonese 10 15 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 10 0 0 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 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. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 15 10 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 5
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 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 20 15 0 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 200 180 0 20 0
English and French 20 5 0 15 0
English and non-official language 175 170 0 0 5
French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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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