Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Québec, V
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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 1 523,305 1,345 309,960 210,160 1,840
Single responses 517,560 1,290 307,890 206,575 1,805
Official languages 491,190 590 294,955 195,600 45
English 7,400 550 295 6,550 0
French 483,790 35 294,660 189,055 45
Non-official languages 26,370 700 12,940 10,975 1,760
Aboriginal languages 450 10 350 80 10
Algonquian languages 440 10 345 80 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 435 10 345 75 5
Atikamekw 30 0 20 5 5
Montagnais (Innu) 395 10 320 65 5
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 5 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 0 0 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 5 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 10 0 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 0 5 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) 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 25,920 690 12,590 10,895 1,750
Afro-Asiatic languages 5,440 55 2,655 2,355 375
Berber languages 680 0 410 245 20
Kabyle 360 0 230 110 15
Berber languages, n.i.e. 325 0 175 140 5
Cushitic languages 45 0 20 25 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 0 20 15 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages 4,690 55 2,205 2,080 350
Amharic 5 0 5 0 0
Arabic 4,665 55 2,195 2,065 350
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 5 0
Tigrigna 10 0 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 30 0 20 10 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,145 20 525 490 110
Khmer (Cambodian) 375 0 210 125 35
Vietnamese 770 20 315 360 75
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 5 0 0
Austronesian languages 315 35 95 180 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 5 0 10 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 5 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 175 0 85 90 5
Malay 20 0 5 15 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 70 20 0 50 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 5 5 10 5
Creole languages 510 0 310 190 10
Haitian Creole 45 0 20 20 0
Creole, n.o.s. 460 0 285 165 15
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 30 15 0 20 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 5 5
Tamil 20 0 0 10 0
Telugu 10 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 13,950 335 6,850 5,905 850
Albanian 210 0 135 50 20
Armenian 60 0 10 50 5
Balto-Slavic languages 2,290 60 1,110 1,020 100
Baltic languages 15 10 0 10 5
Latvian 15 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,270 55 1,110 1,010 100
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 600 10 360 185 40
Bulgarian 225 0 110 100 5
Croatian 85 0 35 40 5
Czech 25 0 5 15 0
Macedonian 10 0 0 5 0
Polish 230 5 85 140 5
Russian 570 20 250 275 25
Serbian 150 5 75 70 5
Serbo-Croatian 260 0 130 110 10
Slovak 15 0 5 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 5 5 0
Ukrainian 105 5 45 50 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 545 25 50 460 10
Afrikaans 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 10 0 0 5 0
Dutch 100 0 10 85 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 385 15 30 335 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 5 5 0
Swedish 25 5 0 20 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 0 5 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Greek 90 5 20 65 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,605 170 560 540 340
Indo-Aryan languages 1,020 85 400 260 280
Bengali 70 25 15 20 10
Gujarati 20 0 5 10 0
Hindi 40 15 0 20 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 850 30 380 175 265
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 0 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 5 0
Urdu 25 10 0 15 5
Iranian languages 485 70 120 260 30
Kurdish 50 10 20 10 10
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 440 65 100 255 20
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 95 10 35 20 30
Italic (Romance) languages 9,150 85 4,965 3,715 385
Catalan 15 0 0 15 0
Italian 490 0 215 270 0
Portuguese 1,465 20 750 630 65
Romanian 750 5 310 415 20
Spanish 6,425 55 3,695 2,375 300
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Japanese 145 25 25 80 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 0 0 20 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 2,660 25 1,595 930 105
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 70 0 40 25 5
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 45 0 30 15 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 155 0 105 40 10
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 5 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 110 0 75 35 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 455 0 280 145 25
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 295 5 145 135 5
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 490 5 320 145 20
Wolof 270 5 120 140 5
Yoruba 10 0 5 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 745 5 470 230 35
Nilo-Saharan languages 30 0 15 10 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 0 15 10 10
Sign languages 105 0 50 10 45
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 55 0 20 10 25
Sign languages, n.i.e 40 0 25 0 20
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,175 155 330 490 200
Chinese languages 1,080 150 300 480 150
Cantonese 235 30 55 110 40
Hakka 5 0 0 5 0
Mandarin 725 110 220 310 90
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 0 10 15 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 5 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 10 15 30 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 100 5 30 15 50
Burmese 10 0 0 5 10
Karenic languages 70 5 20 0 45
Tibetan 5 0 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 15 0 5 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 140 5 55 70 10
Lao 85 5 45 35 5
Thai 55 0 10 30 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 75 5 15 45 5
Azerbaijani 15 5 5 15 0
Turkish 50 0 20 35 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Uralic languages 115 5 35 65 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 100 5 30 60 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 55 0 25 25 10
Multiple responses 5,750 65 2,075 3,585 30
English and French 2,615 10 290 2,315 0
English and non-official language 195 45 15 135 0
French and non-official language 2,690 5 1,750 910 25
English, French and non-official language 250 0 20 225 5

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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