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 West Kelowna, 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 32,345 30,475 5 1,790 75
Single responses 32,070 30,260 5 1,730 80
Official languages 28,860 27,255 5 1,600 5
English 28,420 27,200 0 1,220 5
French 440 55 5 380 0
Non-official languages 3,210 3,005 0 130 70
Aboriginal languages 10 10 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 5 10 0 0 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 0 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 5 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 5 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) 5 5 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 3,200 3,000 0 130 70
Afro-Asiatic languages 45 35 0 0 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 45 35 0 0 10
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 25 20 0 0 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 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 55 45 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 115 115 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 15 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 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. 5 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 5 5 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 2,540 2,385 0 110 45
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 645 620 0 25 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 640 615 0 25 5
Belarusan 5 0 0 5 0
Bosnian 5 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 55 55 0 0 0
Czech 80 75 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 175 160 0 15 0
Russian 110 100 0 5 0
Serbian 40 35 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 20 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 45 0 0 0
Ukrainian 105 100 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,305 1,230 0 60 15
Afrikaans 30 30 0 0 5
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Dutch 225 200 0 25 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 980 935 0 35 15
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 20 25 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 25 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 205 190 0 0 15
Indo-Aryan languages 170 155 0 0 15
Bengali 0 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0 5
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) 140 130 0 0 15
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 0 5 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 360 320 0 25 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 130 120 0 10 0
Portuguese 50 50 0 5 0
Romanian 40 40 0 5 0
Spanish 135 120 0 10 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 65 60 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 30 30 0 0 0
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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 135 130 0 5 5
Chinese languages 140 125 0 5 5
Cantonese 60 55 0 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 60 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 5 10 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 15 15 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 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 170 160 0 5 0
Estonian 10 5 0 0 0
Finnish 30 30 0 0 0
Hungarian 130 125 0 5 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 270 215 0 60 0
English and French 60 20 0 40 0
English and non-official language 195 190 0 10 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 0

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Footnote(s)

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-X2016055.

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