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 Fort St. John, 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 19,965 18,885 5 1,010 65
Single responses 19,690 18,660 5 965 65
Official languages 17,515 16,615 5 900 0
English 17,290 16,580 0 710 0
French 225 30 0 190 0
Non-official languages 2,175 2,040 0 70 65
Aboriginal languages 45 40 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 30 25 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 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. 15 15 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 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 15 10 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 5 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 5 0 0 0
Dene 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 5 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 5 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 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) 5 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 2,130 1,995 5 70 60
Afro-Asiatic languages 70 50 5 10 5
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 55 45 5 15 5
Amharic 20 25 0 0 0
Arabic 35 20 5 15 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 0 0 5 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 20 15 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 535 530 0 5 0
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 470 460 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 80 75 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 70 70 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 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 1,145 1,070 0 30 40
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 185 170 0 5 15
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 185 170 0 5 15
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 0 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 10 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 0 0
Russian 95 80 0 0 10
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 45 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 415 395 0 15 10
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0 0
Dutch 40 35 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 340 325 0 5 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 380 370 0 0 15
Indo-Aryan languages 345 335 0 0 10
Bengali 10 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 0
Hindi 60 65 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 180 175 0 0 5
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 0 0 0 0
Urdu 40 30 0 0 5
Iranian languages 35 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 150 130 0 10 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 15 15 0 0 0
Portuguese 25 25 0 5 0
Romanian 40 30 0 0 5
Spanish 70 65 0 10 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 15 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 65 60 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 40 30 0 15 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) 20 5 0 10 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 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 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 120 105 0 5 15
Chinese languages 120 110 0 0 10
Cantonese 45 30 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 55 0 0 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 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 20 15 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 270 225 0 45 0
English and French 45 10 0 35 0
English and non-official language 220 215 0 5 0
French and non-official language 0 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 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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