Data tables, 2016 Census

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 The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Prince Edward Island / Île-du-Prince-Édouard
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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 1 141,020 121,815 120 17,835 1,250
Single responses 140,025 121,315 110 17,350 1,250
Official languages 132,865 115,795 100 16,945 25
English 128,005 115,395 5 12,580 25
French 4,860 405 95 4,360 5
Non-official languages 7,160 5,520 5 405 1,225
Aboriginal languages 50 45 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 40 40 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 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 40 35 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 35 35 0 5 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 0 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 7,110 5,475 10 400 1,220
Afro-Asiatic languages 660 425 0 65 165
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 50 40 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 50 45 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 605 380 5 65 160
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 575 350 0 60 160
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 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 115 95 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 120 100 0 5 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 395 390 0 0 0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 15 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 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 365 360 0 0 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 10 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 110 105 0 5 5
Kannada 15 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 60 55 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 0 0
Telugu 20 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,580 2,200 0 230 140
Albanian 100 85 0 0 10
Armenian 0 0 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 385 335 0 40 15
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 385 330 5 35 15
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 5 0
Czech 15 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 70 55 5 15 0
Russian 140 120 0 10 10
Serbian 20 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 45 45 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 15 0 5 5
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 900 815 0 75 5
Afrikaans 20 20 0 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0 0
Dutch 465 440 0 25 5
Frisian 30 30 0 0 0
German 320 270 5 45 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 25 25 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 685 570 0 25 90
Indo-Aryan languages 500 405 0 15 80
Bengali 40 40 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 50 50 0 0 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 200 140 0 0 65
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 105 90 0 0 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 45 45 0 5 0
Urdu 50 50 0 5 0
Iranian languages 180 155 0 10 10
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 180 155 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 475 365 0 80 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 40 0 20 0
Portuguese 80 70 0 10 5
Romanian 25 15 0 5 0
Spanish 305 235 0 50 25
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 95 85 0 5 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 115 105 0 5 10
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 80 65 0 20 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 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 5 0 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 20 15 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 20 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 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 10 5 0 0 10
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,785 1,870 0 50 865
Chinese languages 2,745 1,835 0 50 860
Cantonese 205 165 0 10 35
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 2,165 1,450 0 40 680
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 45 35 0 0 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 295 165 0 5 135
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 45 40 0 0 5
Burmese 20 15 0 0 5
Karenic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 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 85 70 0 15 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 20 20 0 5 0
Hungarian 60 50 0 10 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 995 500 5 490 0
English and French 485 85 0 395 0
English and non-official language 460 410 0 50 5
French and non-official language 30 0 5 25 0
English, French and non-official language 20 0 0 20 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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