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 Capital
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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 1 377,670 336,115 155 38,265 3,140
Single responses 372,390 332,265 145 36,860 3,115
Official languages 322,925 289,235 115 33,510 70
English 316,565 288,750 5 27,740 70
French 6,360 490 110 5,765 0
Non-official languages 49,460 43,030 30 3,350 3,045
Aboriginal languages 265 255 0 10 0
Algonquian languages 45 35 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 35 30 0 5 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 15 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 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 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 5 0 0 5
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 10 15 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 5 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 150 150 0 5 0
Comox 5 5 0 0 0
Halkomelem 50 45 0 5 0
Lillooet 5 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 75 75 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 5 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 5 5 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 5 5 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 35 35 0 5 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 5 5 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 5 10 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 25 25 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 49,195 42,775 30 3,345 3,045
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,685 1,275 5 225 185
Berber languages 15 0 0 10 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 5
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 0
Cushitic languages 80 80 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 20 20 0 0 0
Somali 60 55 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,585 1,190 5 210 180
Amharic 105 100 0 0 5
Arabic 1,245 890 5 185 170
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 120 100 0 15 0
Maltese 30 25 0 0 0
Tigrigna 75 70 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,115 1,000 5 40 75
Khmer (Cambodian) 135 120 0 10 5
Vietnamese 985 885 5 30 65
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 4,025 3,935 0 60 25
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 245 240 0 0 5
Fijian 10 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 45 45 0 5 0
Ilocano 195 185 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 100 100 0 0 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 3,340 3,270 0 55 15
Waray-Waray 15 15 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 5 0
Creole languages 40 15 0 20 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 10 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 355 335 0 15 5
Kannada 25 25 0 5 0
Malayalam 90 85 0 5 0
Tamil 140 135 0 5 5
Telugu 90 90 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 24,940 21,710 15 2,445 775
Albanian 130 120 0 5 5
Armenian 50 25 0 20 0
Balto-Slavic languages 4,415 3,890 0 410 110
Baltic languages 110 90 0 20 0
Latvian 55 45 0 10 0
Lithuanian 50 45 0 10 0
Slavic languages 4,300 3,795 0 395 110
Belarusan 5 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 5 5
Bulgarian 115 90 0 10 10
Croatian 415 400 0 20 5
Czech 375 340 0 30 5
Macedonian 15 15 0 5 0
Polish 1,115 1,000 0 105 15
Russian 1,085 910 0 110 55
Serbian 195 165 0 20 10
Serbo-Croatian 90 80 0 10 0
Slovak 140 120 0 20 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 80 70 0 10 0
Ukrainian 610 555 0 50 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 0
Celtic languages 85 65 0 20 0
Scottish Gaelic 30 25 0 10 0
Welsh 40 35 0 10 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages 7,960 6,965 5 970 20
Afrikaans 180 170 0 15 0
Danish 465 425 0 40 0
Dutch 2,085 1,825 0 260 0
Frisian 20 20 0 0 0
German 4,665 4,055 0 595 15
Icelandic 25 25 0 5 0
Norwegian 220 205 0 15 0
Swedish 205 185 0 20 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 35 20 0 15 0
Yiddish 40 30 0 5 5
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 320 290 0 30 5
Indo-Iranian languages 6,175 5,520 5 190 465
Indo-Aryan languages 5,220 4,665 0 130 425
Bengali 145 130 0 10 5
Gujarati 150 140 0 10 0
Hindi 525 505 0 5 10
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 10 15 0 0 0
Marathi 25 25 0 5 0
Nepali 70 65 0 5 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 3,885 3,415 0 80 390
Sindhi 50 45 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 80 80 0 5 0
Urdu 265 245 0 10 10
Iranian languages 935 830 0 60 35
Kurdish 10 10 0 5 0
Pashto 50 45 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 875 775 0 65 35
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 5,810 4,840 5 800 170
Catalan 10 10 0 5 0
Italian 1,070 885 0 165 10
Portuguese 1,410 1,250 0 115 40
Romanian 295 200 0 90 5
Spanish 3,025 2,500 0 420 105
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 1,510 1,400 0 60 55
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 10 5 0 0 0
Korean 1,615 1,405 0 75 140
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 290 225 5 45 10
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 5
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 35 15 0 15 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 65 65 0 5 0
Wolof 10 0 0 15 0
Yoruba 20 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 80 65 0 10 10
Nilo-Saharan languages 15 15 0 0 0
Dinka 0 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 110 75 0 5 35
American Sign Language 40 35 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 65 35 0 5 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 11,945 9,990 5 235 1,715
Chinese languages 11,865 9,905 5 240 1,715
Cantonese 5,150 4,105 0 100 940
Hakka 45 40 0 0 5
Mandarin 5,790 4,990 0 125 675
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 225 200 0 5 20
Wu (Shanghainese) 125 100 0 0 20
Chinese, n.o.s. 520 460 0 5 50
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 80 80 0 0 0
Burmese 35 30 0 0 5
Karenic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 40 35 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 320 305 0 10 10
Lao 15 10 0 0 0
Thai 300 290 0 0 10
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 180 160 0 20 0
Azerbaijani 15 10 0 0 0
Turkish 160 140 0 20 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 1,010 915 0 85 10
Estonian 60 50 0 10 0
Finnish 265 250 0 15 5
Hungarian 680 615 0 60 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Multiple responses 5,280 3,845 10 1,405 25
English and French 1,090 200 5 890 0
English and non-official language 3,915 3,590 0 300 20
French and non-official language 150 35 5 110 5
English, French and non-official language 135 25 0 110 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Data quality note(s) – Capital

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.1%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

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

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