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 Port Coquitlam, 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 58,310 52,860 30 4,025 1,400
Single responses 56,660 51,545 25 3,695 1,395
Official languages 39,295 36,310 10 2,960 15
English 38,665 36,235 0 2,415 15
French 630 75 15 545 0
Non-official languages 17,365 15,240 15 740 1,375
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 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 5 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 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 5 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 5 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 17,365 15,235 15 740 1,375
Afro-Asiatic languages 440 360 5 65 15
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 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 435 360 0 60 15
Amharic 30 30 0 0 0
Arabic 340 265 0 60 15
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 20 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 30 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 250 215 0 10 30
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 35 0 5 10
Vietnamese 210 180 0 5 25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,615 1,595 0 10 10
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 100 100 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 85 85 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 65 60 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,315 1,300 0 10 10
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 20 10 0 15 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 15 5 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 55 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0 0
Telugu 5 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 8,440 7,480 5 515 435
Albanian 35 30 0 0 10
Armenian 10 10 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,300 2,080 5 120 95
Baltic languages 15 20 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,285 2,065 0 120 100
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 100 75 0 20 10
Croatian 130 125 0 5 5
Czech 130 130 0 5 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 775 725 0 30 20
Russian 715 625 0 45 45
Serbian 140 125 0 5 10
Serbo-Croatian 10 15 0 0 0
Slovak 125 115 0 5 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 85 80 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 795 745 0 55 0
Afrikaans 45 45 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0 0
Dutch 155 140 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 495 455 0 30 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0
Swedish 40 35 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 55 50 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,945 2,600 0 90 255
Indo-Aryan languages 1,585 1,380 0 45 160
Bengali 20 20 0 5 0
Gujarati 160 150 0 5 5
Hindi 380 360 0 10 10
Kashmiri 0 5 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 860 685 5 25 145
Sindhi 35 35 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 40 35 0 5 0
Urdu 70 75 0 0 0
Iranian languages 1,345 1,205 0 50 95
Kurdish 100 90 0 0 5
Pashto 10 10 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 1,235 1,100 0 45 90
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,280 1,955 5 240 75
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 420 380 0 30 5
Portuguese 335 295 0 25 10
Romanian 565 440 0 100 25
Spanish 955 835 5 85 35
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 260 235 0 10 15
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,310 1,115 0 25 175
Mongolic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Mongolian 5 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 70 70 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 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 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 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 20 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 4,505 3,755 5 70 675
Chinese languages 4,495 3,745 5 70 675
Cantonese 2,545 2,140 0 45 365
Hakka 45 35 5 5 0
Mandarin 1,665 1,365 5 20 280
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 130 115 0 0 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 40 30 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 55 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 10 0 0 0
Burmese 5 10 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 30 30 0 0 0
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 60 50 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0
Turkish 50 40 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 270 255 0 10 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 70 65 0 5 0
Hungarian 190 180 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,650 1,315 5 325 5
English and French 165 25 0 140 0
English and non-official language 1,380 1,270 0 105 5
French and non-official language 55 10 5 45 0
English, French and non-official language 45 10 0 35 0

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

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