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 Penticton, 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 33,045 30,690 20 2,145 185
Single responses 32,685 30,420 20 2,065 185
Official languages 29,140 27,220 15 1,900 5
English 28,535 27,140 5 1,385 5
French 605 80 10 520 0
Non-official languages 3,545 3,205 5 165 175
Aboriginal languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 5 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 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 5 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. 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 5 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 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 3,530 3,190 5 165 180
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 15 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 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 30 20 0 5 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 15 0 5 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 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 75 65 0 0 10
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 60 0 0 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 210 205 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 185 185 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 15 10 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,765 2,485 0 150 130
Albanian 25 20 0 0 5
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 425 400 0 20 5
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 425 400 0 20 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 35 30 0 0 0
Czech 50 45 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 75 70 5 5 0
Russian 80 80 0 5 0
Serbian 25 20 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 105 110 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,060 995 0 60 5
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0 0
Dutch 220 205 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 735 690 0 45 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 30 25 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 55 50 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 675 560 0 15 100
Indo-Aryan languages 660 540 0 15 105
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 610 495 0 20 100
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 5 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 20 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 515 455 0 45 15
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 120 0 10 0
Portuguese 235 205 0 15 15
Romanian 15 10 0 10 0
Spanish 130 115 0 20 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 70 65 0 5 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 5 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 5 0 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 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 145 120 0 5 20
Chinese languages 145 120 0 5 20
Cantonese 85 70 0 0 15
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 40 35 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 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 140 140 0 0 5
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 110 110 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 360 275 0 90 0
English and French 85 25 0 65 0
English and non-official language 255 250 0 10 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 5
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

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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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