Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (263), Single and Multiple Mother Tongue Responses (3), Age (7) 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 , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Québec, V
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Mother Tongue (263) Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 1 Single mother tongue responsesFootnote 2 Multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 3
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 4 523,310 517,555 5,750
Official languages 496,935 491,185 5,750
English 10,460 7,395 3,060
French 489,345 483,790 5,550
Non-official languages 29,505 26,375 3,135
Aboriginal languages 515 450 65
Algonquian languages 505 440 65
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 495 435 60
Atikamekw 30 30 0
Montagnais (Innu) 445 395 50
Moose Cree 0 0 0
Naskapi 15 5 10
Northern East Cree 5 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 5
Algonquin 5 5 0
Ojibway 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0
Inuit languages 10 10 5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 28,990 25,920 3,070
Afro-Asiatic languages 6,470 5,440 1,025
Berber languages 765 680 85
Kabyle 395 355 40
Berber languages, n.i.e. 370 320 45
Cushitic languages 55 45 10
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 50 45 10
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Semitic languages 5,605 4,690 915
Amharic 5 5 0
Arabic 5,580 4,670 915
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 5 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 40 30 15
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,220 1,145 75
Khmer (Cambodian) 395 375 15
Vietnamese 820 770 55
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 5 0
Austronesian languages 360 315 50
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 15 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0
Malagasy 205 180 30
Malay 20 20 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 75 15
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0
Creole languages 625 510 120
Haitian Creole 50 45 5
Creole, n.o.s. 575 460 110
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Dravidian languages 50 35 15
Kannada 5 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0
Tamil 25 15 10
Telugu 15 10 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 15,030 13,950 1,075
Albanian 230 210 25
Armenian 65 65 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,405 2,290 120
Baltic languages 20 20 0
Latvian 15 15 0
Lithuanian 10 5 5
Slavic languages 2,390 2,270 120
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 635 600 35
Bulgarian 230 220 10
Croatian 90 85 5
Czech 35 25 5
Macedonian 5 5 0
Polish 245 235 10
Russian 605 575 30
Serbian 150 150 5
Serbo-Croatian 265 255 10
Slovak 20 15 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 5
Ukrainian 105 105 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 645 545 100
Afrikaans 10 10 5
Danish 5 10 0
Dutch 115 95 20
Frisian 0 0 0
German 455 385 70
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0
Swedish 25 25 5
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5
Greek 105 90 15
Indo-Iranian languages 1,700 1,600 100
Indo-Aryan languages 1,085 1,025 60
Bengali 70 70 0
Gujarati 25 15 5
Hindi 55 40 15
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0
Marathi 0 5 0
Nepali 875 845 30
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 5 10 0
Sindhi 5 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 5
Iranian languages 515 485 30
Kurdish 55 50 5
Pashto 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 460 435 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 105 95 10
Italic (Romance) languages 9,875 9,155 720
Catalan 20 15 0
Italian 545 490 55
Portuguese 1,530 1,460 65
Romanian 780 750 30
Spanish 6,990 6,425 565
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0
Japanese 170 140 25
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0
Georgian 5 5 0
Korean 30 30 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 3,105 2,660 450
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 80 70 10
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 50 50 5
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 185 155 35
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 140 110 30
Rundi (Kirundi) 495 455 40
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 325 300 30
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 590 490 100
Wolof 330 270 65
Yoruba 10 10 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 890 745 145
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 30 5
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 30 10
Sign languages 210 100 110
American Sign Language 5 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 130 60 75
Sign languages, n.i.e 80 40 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,250 1,180 75
Chinese languages 1,145 1,080 65
Cantonese 255 235 20
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 770 730 40
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 30 30 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 20 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 70 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 105 100 5
Burmese 10 10 0
Karenic languages 70 70 5
Tibetan 10 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0
Tai-Kadai languages 150 140 15
Lao 95 90 10
Thai 55 50 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 5 0
Turkic languages 80 75 5
Azerbaijani 20 15 0
Turkish 55 55 5
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0
Uralic languages 120 115 10
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0
Hungarian 105 105 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 70 55 15

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single mother tongue responses and multiple mother tongue responses received in the census.

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Footnote 2

A single mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

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Footnote 3

A multiple mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

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Footnote 4

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016060.

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