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 Gatineau
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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 1 273,265 19,180 77,420 174,885 1,785
Single responses 265,270 18,710 76,420 168,385 1,755
Official languages 235,995 12,960 69,865 153,125 40
English 30,660 12,805 110 17,730 10
French 205,340 155 69,755 135,395 35
Non-official languages 29,275 5,755 6,550 15,260 1,710
Aboriginal languages 335 230 10 90 5
Algonquian languages 305 215 5 80 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 285 205 10 70 5
Atikamekw 10 0 5 5 0
Montagnais (Innu) 5 0 0 5 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 5 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 35 30 0 10 5
Plains Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 220 165 0 50 5
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 5 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 20 10 5 10 0
Algonquin 20 10 0 15 0
Ojibway 0 0 5 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 5 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 15 5 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 10 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 0 0 5 0
Cayuga 5 5 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 28,940 5,525 6,545 15,170 1,705
Afro-Asiatic languages 7,780 1,260 1,710 4,270 545
Berber languages 540 5 270 255 10
Kabyle 365 0 200 155 15
Berber languages, n.i.e. 180 5 70 100 0
Cushitic languages 285 30 95 145 15
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0
Somali 270 20 95 135 20
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 6,930 1,220 1,335 3,860 515
Amharic 60 40 5 20 0
Arabic 6,810 1,150 1,330 3,810 515
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 10 5 0 10 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 0 0 10 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 35 20 0 15 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 25 0 10 10 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 600 155 65 320 65
Khmer (Cambodian) 210 50 25 120 15
Vietnamese 390 110 35 195 45
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 320 185 20 115 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 15 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0
Malagasy 50 0 10 35 0
Malay 35 10 5 20 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 195 150 0 40 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 10 0
Creole languages 1,190 15 535 615 30
Haitian Creole 110 0 50 55 5
Creole, n.o.s. 1,065 5 485 550 20
Creole languages, n.i.e. 20 10 5 10 0
Dravidian languages 50 30 0 20 0
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 40 25 0 20 0
Telugu 5 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 13,295 2,605 2,780 7,190 720
Albanian 45 20 5 25 0
Armenian 60 10 5 35 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,800 705 430 1,525 135
Baltic languages 15 10 0 10 0
Latvian 15 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 5 0
Slavic languages 2,780 695 430 1,515 135
Belarusan 10 0 0 10 0
Bosnian 160 35 45 75 5
Bulgarian 210 60 20 125 5
Croatian 165 30 25 105 10
Czech 55 20 5 35 0
Macedonian 10 5 0 10 0
Polish 385 140 25 210 0
Russian 655 235 100 260 55
Serbian 565 80 115 350 30
Serbo-Croatian 355 40 70 230 15
Slovak 35 15 5 20 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 145 40 20 85 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 600 220 15 360 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Danish 20 10 0 5 0
Dutch 140 50 5 80 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 390 135 5 245 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 0 0 5 0
Swedish 15 5 5 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 20 5 0 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 130 45 5 75 5
Indo-Iranian languages 1,025 525 55 380 55
Indo-Aryan languages 345 220 0 115 10
Bengali 80 55 0 30 0
Gujarati 10 5 0 10 5
Hindi 45 35 0 15 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 5 0
Nepali 5 5 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 60 45 0 20 5
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 5 0 5 0
Urdu 115 75 0 35 5
Iranian languages 670 300 55 265 50
Kurdish 80 40 5 25 5
Pashto 25 15 0 10 5
Persian (Farsi) 560 240 55 225 40
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 8,635 1,075 2,255 4,785 515
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 380 60 25 295 0
Portuguese 2,555 230 635 1,500 190
Romanian 980 85 175 690 25
Spanish 4,715 700 1,425 2,290 295
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Japanese 110 45 5 50 5
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 5 0 0 5 0
Korean 125 55 5 55 20
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 3,120 130 1,195 1,710 75
Akan (Twi) 30 10 0 15 0
Bamanankan 70 0 40 30 0
Edo 10 0 0 5 0
Ewe 90 5 45 45 5
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 155 0 70 85 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 15 10 0 0 0
Igbo 20 10 0 5 0
Lingala 185 10 65 115 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 650 5 240 400 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 500 15 115 360 5
Shona 10 5 0 5 0
Swahili 480 30 220 200 25
Wolof 195 0 65 120 5
Yoruba 25 10 0 15 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 675 20 320 305 30
Nilo-Saharan languages 35 0 15 15 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 35 5 15 15 0
Sign languages 50 5 15 15 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 5 0
Quebec Sign Language 20 0 15 5 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 0 5 10 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,785 880 155 550 205
Chinese languages 1,775 875 150 545 205
Cantonese 285 125 10 105 40
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,350 695 120 380 150
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 50 15 5 30 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 80 40 15 20 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 0 5 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 160 40 15 85 15
Lao 115 15 15 70 15
Thai 45 30 0 15 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 120 60 15 45 10
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 90 50 5 30 5
Uyghur 10 5 5 0 0
Uzbek 15 5 10 10 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 145 50 5 90 5
Estonian 5 0 0 5 0
Finnish 20 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 120 40 5 80 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 55 0 15 35 0
Multiple responses 7,990 465 1,000 6,495 30
English and French 4,635 85 110 4,425 5
English and non-official language 675 350 5 315 5
French and non-official language 2,105 5 855 1,230 15
English, French and non-official language 575 20 30 525 5

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

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