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 Yellowknife, CY
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 19,405 16,035 60 3,235 75
Single responses 18,865 15,635 50 3,095 75
Official languages 15,935 13,010 50 2,875 0
English 15,090 12,985 0 2,095 0
French 850 25 50 775 0
Non-official languages 2,925 2,630 5 220 75
Aboriginal languages 555 535 0 10 5
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Blackfoot 5 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 15 15 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 5 5 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 10 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 5 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 425 415 0 5 5
Northern Athabaskan languages 425 415 0 5 5
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 75 75 0 0 5
Dogrib (Tlicho) 235 230 0 0 0
Gwich'in 10 10 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 110 110 0 0 5
North Slavey (Hare) 65 65 0 0 0
South Slavey 20 20 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 25 25 0 0 5
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 95 90 0 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 20 20 0 0 0
Inuktitut 70 65 0 5 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 5 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 5 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 2,375 2,090 5 210 70
Afro-Asiatic languages 170 135 0 25 0
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 50 45 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 45 45 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 120 90 0 25 0
Amharic 20 20 0 0 0
Arabic 80 55 0 25 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 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 20 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 155 135 0 10 15
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 160 135 0 10 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 735 720 0 15 10
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 55 55 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 70 65 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 595 580 0 10 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 30 10 0 20 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 25 0 5 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 55 45 0 10 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 20 10 0 5 0
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 790 680 0 95 15
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 50 40 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 160 135 0 15 5
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 160 135 0 15 5
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 15 5 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 30 30 0 0 0
Russian 35 30 0 5 0
Serbian 15 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 205 170 0 35 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 5 0
Danish 5 5 0 5 0
Dutch 45 40 0 5 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 120 105 0 20 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 5 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 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 20 20 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 215 200 0 15 0
Indo-Aryan languages 185 175 0 10 5
Bengali 50 50 0 5 0
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0
Hindi 30 30 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0
Nepali 10 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 40 35 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0 0
Urdu 35 40 0 0 0
Iranian languages 30 25 0 5 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 25 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 140 105 0 25 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 40 25 0 10 5
Portuguese 15 5 0 10 0
Romanian 5 5 0 0 0
Spanish 80 70 0 5 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 55 45 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 20 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 100 0 15 5
Akan (Twi) 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 35 35 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 5 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 45 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 0 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 195 170 0 15 15
Chinese languages 195 165 0 15 15
Cantonese 95 90 0 0 5
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 60 50 0 5 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 35 25 0 0 5
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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 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 20 20 0 0 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 540 400 5 140 0
English and French 115 15 5 100 0
English and non-official language 400 375 0 25 0
French and non-official language 15 0 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 5 5 0 5 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) – Yellowknife, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 6.4%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate higher than or equal to 10%, but lower than 20%.

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

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