Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2016 Census - 100% Data

• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Inverness

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 tongue^Footnote 1	16,990	13,715	70	3,185	25
Single responses	16,790	13,625	65	3,080	20
Official languages	15,960	12,850	65	3,050	0
English	13,870	12,805	0	1,065	0
French	2,090	35	65	1,985	0
Non-official languages	825	775	0	30	20
Aboriginal languages	535	530	0	10	0
Algonquian languages	535	530	0	10	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	535	530	0	5	0
Malecite	0	0	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	540	530	0	5	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	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	290	245	0	25	20
Afro-Asiatic languages	20	5	0	0	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	5	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	5	0	0	20
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	20	5	0	0	15
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	5	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	5	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	15	15	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	15	15	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	0	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	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	0	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	230	205	0	25	0
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	5	5	0	5	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	5	5	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	5	5	0	0	0
Belarusan	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Czech	5	5	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	0	0	0	0	0
Russian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	0	0	0	5	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	40	40	0	5	0
Scottish Gaelic	40	35	0	5	0
Welsh	5	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	165	150	0	10	0
Afrikaans	0	0	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0	0
Dutch	60	60	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	90	85	0	5	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	5	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	0	5	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	5	5	0	0	0
Bengali	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	0	0	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)	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	15	10	0	5	5
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Italian	10	5	0	5	0
Portuguese	0	0	0	0	0
Romanian	0	5	0	0	0
Spanish	5	5	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	0	5	0	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Korean	0	5	0	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	0	0	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.	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	10	5	0	0	5
Chinese languages	10	10	0	0	0
Cantonese	5	5	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	5	0	0	0	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0	0	0	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	0	0	0
Uyghur	0	0	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages	5	0	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	0	0	0	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Multiple responses	200	90	5	110	0
English and French	115	15	5	100	0
English and non-official language	75	70	0	5	0
French and non-official language	5	0	0	5	0
English, French and non-official language	5	5	0	0	0

Symbol(s)

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not available for a specific reference period

Symbol ...

not applicable

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

Data quality note(s) – Inverness

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Default. Not applicable.
• 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-X2016055.