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 Courtenay, 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 25,200 23,030 15 2,040 115
Single responses 24,955 22,860 10 1,965 115
Official languages 23,015 21,125 15 1,870 0
English 22,415 21,080 0 1,335 5
French 595 45 10 540 0
Non-official languages 1,940 1,735 0 90 110
Aboriginal languages 10 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 5 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 1,920 1,720 0 85 110
Afro-Asiatic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 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 15 10 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 5 5 0 0 0
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 0 5 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 155 125 0 5 30
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 155 125 0 5 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 150 155 0 0 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 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) 110 110 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 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 1,050 970 0 65 10
Albanian 5 5 0 0 5
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 190 175 0 15 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 190 175 0 10 0
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 50 45 0 5 0
Russian 30 25 0 0 0
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 60 60 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 515 490 0 30 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 0 0
Dutch 135 130 0 10 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 300 285 0 20 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 140 130 0 5 10
Indo-Aryan languages 125 120 0 0 5
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0 5
Hindi 20 20 0 5 5
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) 70 70 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 170 150 0 20 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 40 0 5 0
Portuguese 25 20 0 0 0
Romanian 0 5 0 0 0
Spanish 100 85 0 15 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 105 90 0 5 15
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 25 20 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 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 270 215 0 5 45
Chinese languages 270 215 0 5 50
Cantonese 155 125 0 5 35
Hakka 10 5 0 0 5
Mandarin 80 65 0 0 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 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 20 20 0 0 5
Lao 5 0 0 0 5
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 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 55 55 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 35 30 0 5 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 245 170 0 75 5
English and French 75 15 0 60 0
English and non-official language 160 155 0 10 5
French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 0 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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