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 Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse
Data quality
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 1 912,295 813,480 705 95,380 2,730
Single responses 904,240 808,950 685 91,900 2,705
Official languages 859,690 770,500 630 88,440 125
English 830,225 768,860 20 61,220 120
French 29,465 1,640 610 27,215 5
Non-official languages 44,550 38,450 55 3,460 2,580
Aboriginal languages 4,290 4,220 5 55 15
Algonquian languages 4,210 4,155 0 45 15
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 10 5 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 4,190 4,130 5 45 15
Malecite 10 10 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 4,185 4,120 0 45 15
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 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 5 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 5 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 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 65 60 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 50 50 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 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 5 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 40,265 34,230 55 3,410 2,570
Afro-Asiatic languages 7,755 5,850 20 800 1,090
Berber languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 5 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 130 100 0 5 20
Bilen 5 0 0 0 5
Oromo 60 50 0 5 5
Somali 50 45 0 5 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 10
Semitic languages 7,615 5,745 20 785 1,065
Amharic 115 110 0 0 0
Arabic 7,110 5,315 15 760 1,020
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 210 185 0 10 10
Maltese 15 15 0 0 0
Tigrigna 145 100 5 10 35
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 500 410 0 40 50
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 495 405 5 35 50
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,240 2,195 0 30 15
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 150 145 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 25 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 50 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 60 50 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 10 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,905 1,875 0 20 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 5 0
Creole languages 95 70 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 15 0 15 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 1,010 950 0 40 25
Kannada 40 35 0 5 0
Malayalam 365 355 0 10 5
Tamil 320 290 0 20 10
Telugu 285 265 0 10 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 18,595 15,835 15 2,055 680
Albanian 275 240 0 10 20
Armenian 40 25 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 3,470 2,995 5 375 100
Baltic languages 100 75 0 20 0
Latvian 50 40 0 15 0
Lithuanian 50 35 0 5 0
Slavic languages 3,375 2,915 5 355 100
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 120 110 0 5 5
Bulgarian 55 50 0 5 5
Croatian 220 195 0 25 5
Czech 205 160 0 40 5
Macedonian 20 20 0 0 0
Polish 800 685 0 100 10
Russian 1,285 1,115 0 105 70
Serbian 120 110 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 80 75 0 5 0
Slovak 100 85 0 20 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 320 270 0 40 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 180 160 0 15 5
Scottish Gaelic 145 130 0 10 5
Welsh 30 25 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages 5,695 4,830 0 755 105
Afrikaans 120 110 0 10 0
Danish 165 145 0 20 0
Dutch 1,620 1,440 0 175 0
Frisian 30 35 0 5 0
German 3,430 2,845 0 480 110
Icelandic 40 30 0 10 0
Norwegian 110 95 0 15 0
Swedish 110 95 5 15 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 25 15 0 15 0
Yiddish 20 10 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 10 0
Greek 760 660 0 70 30
Indo-Iranian languages 4,835 4,335 5 190 310
Indo-Aryan languages 3,385 3,075 0 95 210
Bengali 480 450 0 15 5
Gujarati 195 190 0 5 0
Hindi 750 715 0 20 10
Kashmiri 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 70 70 0 0 0
Nepali 530 375 0 0 155
Oriya (Odia) 10 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 580 550 0 15 15
Sindhi 20 15 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 165 155 0 5 5
Urdu 575 525 0 25 25
Iranian languages 1,425 1,240 0 95 95
Kurdish 115 90 0 5 15
Pashto 80 70 0 5 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,235 1,075 0 80 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,335 2,590 5 620 115
Catalan 15 5 0 5 5
Italian 745 570 0 155 15
Portuguese 515 430 0 70 20
Romanian 225 145 0 75 5
Spanish 1,830 1,440 5 310 80
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 365 335 0 15 10
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 1,095 990 0 45 60
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 630 480 10 110 25
Akan (Twi) 40 40 0 5 0
Bamanankan 15 0 0 15 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 40 30 0 10 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 5 0 5 0
Ga 10 10 0 0 0
Ganda 20 20 0 0 0
Igbo 40 35 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 5 5 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 45 15 0 30 0
Shona 25 30 0 0 0
Swahili 135 95 5 20 20
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 70 65 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 140 125 5 15 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 75 65 0 5 5
Dinka 20 15 0 0 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 55 55 0 5 0
Sign languages 195 110 0 5 80
American Sign Language 85 55 0 5 25
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 110 55 0 0 50
Sino-Tibetan languages 6,665 6,025 5 145 490
Chinese languages 6,635 6,000 5 140 490
Cantonese 1,145 950 0 40 150
Hakka 25 20 0 0 5
Mandarin 4,635 4,265 5 85 285
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 120 110 0 10 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 50 40 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 650 600 0 5 40
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 30 25 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages 160 135 0 5 15
Lao 10 5 0 0 0
Thai 150 130 0 5 20
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 440 390 0 30 20
Azerbaijani 15 10 0 0 0
Turkish 305 265 0 30 5
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 110 100 0 0 10
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 410 355 0 55 0
Estonian 40 35 0 5 0
Finnish 90 80 0 15 0
Hungarian 280 240 0 35 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Multiple responses 8,060 4,530 25 3,480 30
English and French 3,445 625 5 2,815 0
English and non-official language 4,180 3,795 0 350 25
French and non-official language 225 50 15 155 0
English, French and non-official language 210 50 0 160 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Data quality note(s) – Nova Scotia / Nouvelle-Écosse

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.9%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

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

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