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 Columbia-Shuswap
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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 50,925 47,250 15 3,550 110
Single responses 50,510 46,935 15 3,450 110
Official languages 46,805 43,545 15 3,245 0
English 45,820 43,435 0 2,380 0
French 985 105 10 870 0
Non-official languages 3,705 3,395 0 205 105
Aboriginal languages 45 40 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 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 5 5 0 5 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 5 0
Chilcotin 0 0 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 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 25 30 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) 25 25 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 5 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 5 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 3,660 3,350 0 205 105
Afro-Asiatic languages 20 10 0 5 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 20 10 0 5 5
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 15 5 0 5 10
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 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 10 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 200 190 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 5 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 175 170 0 0 5
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 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 2,955 2,710 0 180 60
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 485 445 0 30 15
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 480 440 0 30 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 25 20 0 5 0
Czech 95 85 0 15 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 90 85 0 5 5
Russian 75 65 0 5 5
Serbian 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 20 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 15 0 5 0
Ukrainian 150 150 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,845 1,720 0 115 15
Afrikaans 40 40 0 5 0
Danish 55 50 0 0 0
Dutch 345 325 0 20 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,340 1,235 0 95 10
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 25 0 0 0
Swedish 30 25 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 215 185 0 5 30
Indo-Aryan languages 210 180 0 5 25
Bengali 0 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 160 130 0 5 20
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 20 25 0 0 0
Iranian languages 5 0 0 0 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 380 355 0 25 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 235 220 0 10 5
Portuguese 45 40 0 5 0
Romanian 10 5 0 0 0
Spanish 90 85 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 65 65 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 80 70 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 5 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 5 0 5 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 0 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 130 110 0 5 20
Chinese languages 135 105 0 0 20
Cantonese 55 50 0 0 5
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 30 25 0 0 10
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 30 0 0 5
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 5 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 5 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 140 140 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 70 65 0 0 0
Hungarian 70 70 0 0 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 415 310 0 105 0
English and French 105 30 0 75 0
English and non-official language 285 265 0 15 0
French and non-official language 15 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 5 0 10 0

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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-X2016054.

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