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

• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Whitecourt, T

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 tongue^Footnote 1	10,205	9,615	15	535	40
Single responses	10,095	9,520	15	525	40
Official languages	9,155	8,625	10	515	0
English	8,890	8,600	0	285	5
French	270	25	15	230	0
Non-official languages	940	890	0	10	35
Aboriginal languages	15	10	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	10	15	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0
Cree-Montagnais languages	10	10	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	5	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	10	10	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	5	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0
Ojibway	5	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	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	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	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.	0	0	0	0	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	925	880	0	10	35
Afro-Asiatic languages	15	20	0	0	0
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	20	20	0	0	0
Amharic	0	5	0	0	0
Arabic	10	10	0	0	0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	0	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	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	5	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	45	45	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	45	45	0	0	5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	330	325	0	0	0
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0
Cebuano	5	5	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0	0
Hiligaynon	5	5	0	0	0
Ilocano	15	15	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	300	300	0	0	0
Waray-Waray	0	0	0	0	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0
Creole languages	5	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	10	10	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	5	0	0	0
Telugu	5	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	450	420	0	10	20
Albanian	0	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0
Balto-Slavic languages	50	45	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	45	45	0	0	0
Belarusan	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	0	5	0	0	0
Czech	5	5	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	10	15	0	0	0
Russian	5	5	0	0	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	20	20	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Scottish Gaelic	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	290	265	0	5	15
Afrikaans	15	15	0	0	0
Danish	0	0	0	0	0
Dutch	15	10	0	5	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0
German	255	235	0	5	20
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	0	0	0	0	0
Swedish	5	0	0	0	0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0	0	0	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	10	5	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	60	60	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	55	55	0	0	0
Bengali	5	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	15	15	0	0	0
Hindi	15	15	0	0	0
Kashmiri	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	5	0	0	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	10	10	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	5	0	0	0
Urdu	10	10	0	0	0
Iranian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	5	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Italic (Romance) languages	50	40	0	5	0
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0
Italian	5	5	0	0	0
Portuguese	5	5	0	0	0
Romanian	5	5	0	0	0
Spanish	35	25	0	5	0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	0	0	0	0	0
Kartvelian languages	0	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0
Korean	15	15	0	0	0
Mongolic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	10	10	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	5	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	0	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0	0
Yoruba	5	5	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	5	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	0	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	40	25	0	0	10
Chinese languages	35	25	0	0	15
Cantonese	25	15	0	0	10
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	5	5	0	0	0
Min Dong	0	0	0	0	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0	5	0	0	0
Wu (Shanghainese)	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	5	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	0	0	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	10	10	0	0	0
Estonian	0	5	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	5	5	0	0	0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0	0	0
Multiple responses	105	95	0	10	0
English and French	15	5	0	10	0
English and non-official language	90	90	0	0	0
French and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0

Symbol(s)

Symbol ..

not available for a specific reference period

Symbol ...

not applicable

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

Data quality note(s) – Whitecourt, T

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Default. Not applicable.
• Short-form data quality flag
  Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.0%.
• 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.