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 Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury, CV
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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 1 159,740 96,205 1,300 61,845 390
Single responses 156,060 95,235 1,280 59,160 385
Official languages 146,200 86,765 1,230 58,180 25
English 105,245 85,820 10 19,395 20
French 40,955 945 1,225 38,785 5
Non-official languages 9,860 8,470 45 980 365
Aboriginal languages 225 215 0 10 5
Algonquian languages 220 210 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 55 55 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 0 0 5 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 10 15 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 35 35 0 5 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 165 155 0 5 5
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 150 145 0 5 5
Oji-Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 10 10 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 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 5 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 5 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 9,635 8,255 50 970 360
Afro-Asiatic languages 450 325 10 110 10
Berber languages 15 5 0 10 0
Kabyle 10 5 5 10 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 430 320 5 95 10
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 415 300 5 95 10
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 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 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 105 0 5 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 120 100 0 5 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 220 210 0 5 5
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 15 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 160 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 5
Creole languages 10 5 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 5 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 115 115 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,285 5,420 10 640 215
Albanian 5 5 0 5 0
Armenian 10 15 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,560 1,370 0 160 35
Baltic languages 80 65 0 5 0
Latvian 30 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 50 40 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,485 1,300 0 150 30
Belarusan 5 5 0 5 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 5
Bulgarian 5 10 0 0 0
Croatian 220 170 0 40 5
Czech 50 50 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 450 395 0 45 10
Russian 115 90 0 15 10
Serbian 85 80 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 45 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 40 30 0 5 0
Ukrainian 445 410 0 30 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 860 775 0 85 0
Afrikaans 15 20 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 5 0
Dutch 120 105 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 665 600 0 65 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 135 110 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages 710 635 0 35 40
Indo-Aryan languages 640 570 0 30 40
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 155 125 0 10 20
Hindi 120 115 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0
Nepali 40 25 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 115 105 0 5 0
Sindhi 15 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 150 140 0 5 5
Iranian languages 65 60 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,000 2,505 15 345 135
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 2,385 2,065 0 210 105
Portuguese 215 145 5 55 15
Romanian 35 30 0 5 0
Spanish 340 255 10 70 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 10 0
Japanese 25 20 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 60 0 5 0
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 175 65 25 80 0
Akan (Twi) 15 10 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) 10 0 5 10 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 5 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 25 5 5 15 0
Shona 15 15 0 5 0
Swahili 20 5 0 15 0
Wolof 0 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 20 15 20 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 40 20 0 5 15
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 10 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 685 580 5 35 65
Chinese languages 680 575 5 40 65
Cantonese 235 190 0 15 35
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 370 315 0 20 30
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 55 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 25 20 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 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 1,375 1,280 0 60 30
Estonian 35 30 0 0 0
Finnish 1,250 1,165 0 55 25
Hungarian 90 85 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 3,685 970 20 2,685 5
English and French 2,795 285 15 2,495 0
English and non-official language 745 670 0 70 5
French and non-official language 90 5 5 75 5
English, French and non-official language 50 10 0 40 0

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

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