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 Oak Bay, DM
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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 17,750 14,845 5 2,795 100
Single responses 17,540 14,715 5 2,720 95
Official languages 15,570 13,080 0 2,485 0
English 15,320 13,060 0 2,250 0
French 255 15 0 240 0
Non-official languages 1,970 1,640 5 230 95
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 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 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 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 5 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 1,970 1,640 0 230 95
Afro-Asiatic languages 65 45 5 15 5
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 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 65 45 0 15 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 50 35 0 10 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 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 15 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 90 85 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 70 0 0 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 5 5 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,050 845 0 180 20
Albanian 5 5 0 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 210 160 0 35 5
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages 200 155 0 35 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 0 0
Croatian 25 25 0 0 0
Czech 30 30 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5 0
Polish 35 20 0 10 0
Russian 50 35 0 5 5
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 30 20 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 5 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 455 375 0 80 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 35 35 0 5 0
Dutch 95 70 0 20 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 280 230 0 50 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 125 120 0 5 0
Indo-Aryan languages 90 80 0 5 0
Bengali 0 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 55 50 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 40 40 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 35 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 225 170 0 45 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 60 40 0 15 0
Portuguese 35 25 0 5 5
Romanian 10 0 0 10 0
Spanish 120 100 0 15 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 80 80 0 0 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 70 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 10 10 0 5 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) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 515 440 0 15 60
Chinese languages 520 440 0 15 65
Cantonese 160 135 0 5 20
Hakka 0 0 0 0 5
Mandarin 330 285 0 10 40
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 10 10 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 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 10 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Estonian 5 0 0 5 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 25 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 205 130 0 80 0
English and French 50 5 0 40 0
English and non-official language 140 115 0 20 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0

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

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