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 Niagara Falls, 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 86,820 79,725 60 6,090 935
Single responses 85,140 78,445 65 5,695 940
Official languages 69,440 64,445 50 4,925 15
English 67,700 64,305 5 3,370 15
French 1,740 140 45 1,555 0
Non-official languages 15,700 14,000 10 770 920
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 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 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 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 5 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. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 15,690 13,990 10 765 920
Afro-Asiatic languages 645 585 5 40 20
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 115 105 0 0 10
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 115 105 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 530 475 0 40 15
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 465 415 5 40 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 20 20 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 5 0
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 400 345 0 10 45
Khmer (Cambodian) 15 15 0 0 0
Vietnamese 380 325 0 10 45
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 955 935 0 5 10
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 40 40 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 845 830 0 5 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 55 15 5 30 5
Haitian Creole 10 5 0 10 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 10 5 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 185 180 0 5 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 135 130 0 5 5
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 10,790 9,735 5 560 485
Albanian 35 30 0 0 0
Armenian 20 10 0 10 5
Balto-Slavic languages 3,000 2,690 0 170 140
Baltic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Latvian 15 15 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,970 2,665 0 170 140
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0 5
Bulgarian 205 180 0 10 10
Croatian 165 160 0 5 0
Czech 60 50 0 5 0
Macedonian 20 20 0 5 0
Polish 680 615 0 35 25
Russian 305 265 0 25 15
Serbian 1,050 905 0 65 70
Serbo-Croatian 75 70 0 10 5
Slovak 70 70 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 40 0 0 0
Ukrainian 250 225 0 15 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 985 930 0 55 5
Afrikaans 35 30 0 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0 0
Dutch 235 220 0 10 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 665 625 0 35 5
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 15 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 185 170 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,615 1,485 0 45 80
Indo-Aryan languages 1,410 1,300 0 40 70
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 320 280 0 10 30
Hindi 220 210 0 10 5
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Nepali 25 20 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 340 315 0 5 25
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0
Urdu 410 380 5 15 5
Iranian languages 180 165 0 10 15
Kurdish 50 45 0 0 5
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 125 110 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,940 4,410 0 265 260
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 3,720 3,370 5 155 200
Portuguese 130 110 0 10 5
Romanian 140 100 0 30 5
Spanish 950 825 0 75 50
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 175 150 0 10 5
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 360 300 0 15 50
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 100 5 10 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 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 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 20 20 0 0 0
Swahili 25 20 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 30 20 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 15 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,325 1,020 0 45 260
Chinese languages 1,310 1,000 0 50 260
Cantonese 595 430 0 20 145
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 585 470 0 20 90
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 35 25 0 0 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 60 0 5 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 15 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 15 15 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 40 40 0 5 5
Lao 20 20 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 5 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 200 180 0 15 5
Azerbaijani 15 15 0 0 0
Turkish 175 150 0 15 5
Uyghur 10 10 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 405 375 0 15 15
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 385 355 0 20 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 1,680 1,280 5 395 0
English and French 345 90 0 255 0
English and non-official language 1,260 1,170 0 85 5
French and non-official language 35 15 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 40 15 0 25 0

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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