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 Longueuil, V
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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 1 237,665 6,415 110,535 118,740 1,965
Single responses 230,935 6,215 108,560 114,220 1,940
Official languages 196,605 3,450 96,495 96,615 50
English 13,900 3,395 135 10,360 10
French 182,705 55 96,355 86,255 35
Non-official languages 34,335 2,765 12,065 17,610 1,900
Aboriginal languages 30 10 10 10 0
Algonquian languages 10 0 10 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 10 0 10 5 0
Atikamekw 5 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 10 0 5 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 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 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 10 0 5 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 0 0 10 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 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 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 34,305 2,760 12,055 17,595 1,895
Afro-Asiatic languages 6,200 190 2,850 2,930 230
Berber languages 890 10 535 335 10
Kabyle 575 5 375 190 5
Berber languages, n.i.e. 315 10 165 140 5
Cushitic languages 20 0 5 10 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 0 5 10 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Semitic languages 5,265 175 2,295 2,575 215
Amharic 10 0 0 5 0
Arabic 5,230 175 2,290 2,550 215
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 5 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 20 0 5 10 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 25 5 15 10 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,230 50 355 715 105
Khmer (Cambodian) 260 10 110 120 20
Vietnamese 970 45 245 600 85
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 440 170 85 180 5
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 5 0 15 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 0 5 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 5 0
Malagasy 130 0 75 50 0
Malay 20 5 0 15 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 240 140 5 90 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 2,805 10 1,580 1,145 75
Haitian Creole 165 0 100 60 5
Creole, n.o.s. 2,540 10 1,470 995 65
Creole languages, n.i.e. 100 0 15 85 0
Dravidian languages 100 55 5 35 5
Kannada 5 0 0 5 0
Malayalam 10 10 0 5 0
Tamil 65 35 0 25 5
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 18,585 1,410 5,725 10,470 975
Albanian 35 0 5 20 5
Armenian 100 5 20 70 10
Balto-Slavic languages 2,430 330 545 1,460 95
Baltic languages 25 0 0 20 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 20 0 5 20 0
Slavic languages 2,410 330 540 1,440 95
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 325 15 75 230 5
Croatian 65 15 0 45 0
Czech 35 15 5 25 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 5 0
Polish 345 60 55 225 5
Russian 1,175 115 340 645 75
Serbian 85 10 20 60 5
Serbo-Croatian 30 0 5 25 0
Slovak 25 0 5 20 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 120 70 0 50 0
Ukrainian 175 25 40 110 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5 5 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 5 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 385 95 15 275 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 5 0
Danish 15 10 0 5 0
Dutch 60 15 5 40 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 275 65 10 195 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0
Swedish 10 5 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 15 0 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 565 140 25 365 40
Indo-Iranian languages 2,605 560 470 1,310 265
Indo-Aryan languages 635 295 25 280 25
Bengali 100 50 5 45 0
Gujarati 60 20 15 30 0
Hindi 70 35 0 25 5
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 5 0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 115 60 0 45 5
Sindhi 10 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 5 0
Urdu 245 100 5 125 10
Iranian languages 1,955 265 440 1,010 235
Kurdish 10 5 0 5 0
Pashto 60 20 5 30 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,880 240 435 975 230
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 15 0
Italic (Romance) languages 12,450 280 4,640 6,970 560
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,155 40 240 850 30
Portuguese 1,475 55 435 925 70
Romanian 1,980 25 580 1,300 80
Spanish 7,835 165 3,385 3,895 380
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 50 20 0 30 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 5 0
Georgian 5 0 0 5 0
Korean 130 50 10 55 15
Mongolic languages 5 0 5 5 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages 1,440 25 780 615 30
Akan (Twi) 15 5 0 10 0
Bamanankan 80 0 50 30 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 30 0 15 20 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 120 0 60 55 5
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 5 0
Lingala 95 0 60 30 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 115 0 40 65 10
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 75 5 35 40 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 85 0 50 30 0
Wolof 300 0 175 125 5
Yoruba 15 0 10 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 500 5 290 200 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 0 5 5 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Sign languages 70 5 40 10 20
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 55 0 35 10 10
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 0 5 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,585 710 435 1,045 400
Chinese languages 2,530 690 435 1,010 395
Cantonese 845 185 145 360 155
Hakka 15 0 0 10 5
Mandarin 1,390 430 235 540 185
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 110 15 20 60 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 50 10 10 20 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 120 50 25 35 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 55 15 0 30 10
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 55 15 5 35 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 365 15 130 190 25
Lao 340 10 125 175 30
Thai 20 5 0 10 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 125 25 35 55 10
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 120 20 35 55 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 130 25 10 100 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 130 20 15 95 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 25 5 15 10 0
Multiple responses 6,725 205 1,980 4,515 25
English and French 2,485 20 145 2,320 0
English and non-official language 485 170 5 305 5
French and non-official language 3,180 5 1,795 1,365 15
English, French and non-official language 575 10 40 530 5

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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