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 Prince George, 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 73,035 68,855 10 3,830 345
Single responses 72,245 68,220 10 3,675 340
Official languages 65,155 61,715 10 3,425 10
English 64,210 61,545 5 2,655 10
French 945 170 5 770 0
Non-official languages 7,090 6,510 5 250 330
Aboriginal languages 285 275 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 55 55 0 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 10 10 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. 45 40 0 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 10 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 160 160 0 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 165 160 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 5 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 145 140 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 5 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 5 5 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 5 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 5 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 40 40 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 30 25 0 0 0
Nisga'a 5 5 0 0 0
Tsimshian 5 5 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 6,810 6,230 5 245 330
Afro-Asiatic languages 165 125 0 5 25
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 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 165 125 0 10 30
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 140 105 0 10 30
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 10 10 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 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 70 65 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 650 640 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 60 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 25 30 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 525 525 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 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 55 55 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 25 25 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 4,670 4,310 5 165 185
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 705 665 0 25 10
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 695 655 0 25 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 175 170 0 5 5
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 140 130 0 5 0
Russian 95 85 0 0 10
Serbian 25 25 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 25 0 0 0
Ukrainian 150 145 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,315 1,250 0 65 5
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0 0
Danish 80 80 0 0 0
Dutch 205 190 0 15 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 915 870 0 45 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 35 35 0 0 0
Swedish 25 20 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 70 65 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,760 1,590 0 25 145
Indo-Aryan languages 1,705 1,535 0 25 145
Bengali 60 50 0 0 5
Gujarati 20 20 0 0 0
Hindi 125 120 0 0 0
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,395 1,240 0 25 130
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0 0
Urdu 80 75 0 0 0
Iranian languages 60 50 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 50 45 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 810 730 0 50 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 265 245 0 15 5
Portuguese 230 215 5 5 15
Romanian 45 40 0 5 0
Spanish 265 235 0 20 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 50 45 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 150 130 0 10 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 120 85 0 35 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 5 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 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 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 10 0 10 0
Wolof 5 0 0 10 0
Yoruba 15 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 30 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 635 545 0 15 75
Chinese languages 625 535 0 15 75
Cantonese 285 235 0 10 40
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 285 255 0 5 25
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 35 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 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 20 25 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 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 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 170 170 0 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 75 80 0 0 0
Hungarian 90 90 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 795 635 5 155 0
English and French 145 40 0 105 0
English and non-official language 625 585 0 30 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 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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