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 Capital
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 1 377,670 336,110 160 38,265 3,140
Single responses 372,390 332,265 150 36,855 3,115
Official languages 322,925 289,235 115 33,510 70
English 316,565 288,750 5 27,740 70
French 6,360 490 110 5,765 0
Non-official languages 49,465 43,030 30 3,350 3,045
Aboriginal languages 260 255 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 35 30 0 5 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 10 15 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 10 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 0 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 0 0 5
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 10 10 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Salish languages 150 150 0 0 0
Comox 5 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 45 50 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 80 75 0 5 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 5 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 5 5 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 35 35 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 5 5 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 5 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 20 25 0 5 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 49,200 42,775 30 3,345 3,045
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,685 1,275 5 220 185
Berber languages 10 0 0 10 5
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 5
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages 85 80 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 20 0 0 0
Somali 60 55 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,585 1,195 5 210 180
Amharic 110 105 0 0 10
Arabic 1,245 890 5 185 170
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 5 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 120 95 0 20 0
Maltese 25 25 0 5 0
Tigrigna 80 70 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,115 1,005 5 40 70
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 115 0 10 5
Vietnamese 985 885 0 30 65
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 4,020 3,935 0 60 25
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 245 240 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 50 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 195 190 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 100 100 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 3,335 3,265 0 55 15
Waray-Waray 15 15 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 5 0
Creole languages 40 15 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 10 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 10 0
Dravidian languages 350 335 0 15 5
Kannada 20 25 0 5 0
Malayalam 90 85 0 5 0
Tamil 140 135 0 10 0
Telugu 90 90 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 24,945 21,710 15 2,445 775
Albanian 130 120 0 0 5
Armenian 50 25 0 20 0
Balto-Slavic languages 4,410 3,890 0 410 105
Baltic languages 110 95 0 15 0
Latvian 60 50 0 5 0
Lithuanian 55 45 0 10 0
Slavic languages 4,300 3,795 5 395 105
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 30 5 5 0
Bulgarian 110 95 0 15 10
Croatian 420 400 0 20 0
Czech 375 340 0 30 5
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 0
Polish 1,120 1,000 0 105 10
Russian 1,080 910 5 110 55
Serbian 200 165 0 25 10
Serbo-Croatian 90 80 0 10 0
Slovak 140 125 0 15 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 80 70 0 10 0
Ukrainian 615 555 0 50 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages 80 60 0 20 0
Scottish Gaelic 25 20 0 10 0
Welsh 40 35 0 10 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages 7,960 6,965 5 970 20
Afrikaans 185 170 0 15 0
Danish 465 430 0 40 0
Dutch 2,090 1,825 0 260 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 4,670 4,060 5 595 10
Icelandic 25 25 0 0 0
Norwegian 220 205 0 15 0
Swedish 205 185 0 20 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 35 20 0 15 0
Yiddish 40 30 0 10 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 320 290 0 30 5
Indo-Iranian languages 6,175 5,520 0 195 465
Indo-Aryan languages 5,220 4,665 5 125 425
Bengali 150 135 0 5 0
Gujarati 145 135 0 10 5
Hindi 520 505 0 10 10
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 10 15 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 5 0
Nepali 75 65 0 5 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 3,885 3,415 0 75 390
Sindhi 50 50 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 80 0 5 0
Urdu 265 245 0 10 15
Iranian languages 935 830 0 60 40
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 50 45 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 875 775 0 60 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 5,810 4,840 5 795 165
Catalan 10 10 0 5 0
Italian 1,065 885 0 170 10
Portuguese 1,405 1,245 0 115 45
Romanian 295 200 5 85 10
Spanish 3,025 2,500 5 420 100
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Japanese 1,515 1,400 0 60 55
Kartvelian languages 10 5 0 0 5
Georgian 5 5 0 0 5
Korean 1,620 1,405 5 70 140
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 285 220 5 50 10
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 5 0 0 5
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 35 15 0 15 0
Shona 15 20 0 0 0
Swahili 65 60 0 5 0
Wolof 10 0 0 10 0
Yoruba 20 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 60 0 5 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 110 70 0 5 40
American Sign Language 40 35 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 65 35 0 0 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 11,945 9,990 5 235 1,720
Chinese languages 11,860 9,905 5 235 1,715
Cantonese 5,150 4,110 0 100 945
Hakka 50 40 0 0 0
Mandarin 5,790 4,995 0 125 670
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 230 200 0 5 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 125 100 5 0 20
Chinese, n.o.s. 515 460 0 5 50
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 80 80 0 0 0
Burmese 30 30 0 0 0
Karenic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 35 35 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 320 305 0 5 10
Lao 10 10 0 5 0
Thai 305 295 0 5 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 180 155 0 25 0
Azerbaijani 15 10 0 0 5
Turkish 160 135 0 20 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 1,010 915 0 85 10
Estonian 60 50 0 10 0
Finnish 270 250 0 15 5
Hungarian 680 610 0 55 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Multiple responses 5,280 3,845 10 1,405 25
English and French 1,090 200 5 885 0
English and non-official language 3,915 3,590 5 300 20
French and non-official language 145 35 0 110 5
English, French and non-official language 135 25 0 110 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Data quality note(s) – Capital

  • 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: 5.1%.
  • 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.

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