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 Brossard, V
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 84,480 9,445 18,900 52,385 3,745
Single responses 80,465 9,090 18,335 49,325 3,715
Official languages 47,250 2,650 12,965 31,590 45
English 9,860 2,625 30 7,195 15
French 37,390 30 12,940 24,390 30
Non-official languages 33,215 6,440 5,370 17,740 3,665
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 5 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 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 33,210 6,440 5,370 17,735 3,665
Afro-Asiatic languages 4,245 445 1,055 2,520 215
Berber languages 190 0 85 100 10
Kabyle 100 0 50 50 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 85 0 35 50 5
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 4,040 445 965 2,420 210
Amharic 10 5 0 10 0
Arabic 4,005 440 965 2,395 210
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 5 0 10 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,655 135 300 1,120 100
Khmer (Cambodian) 155 10 50 80 15
Vietnamese 1,495 120 250 1,035 90
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 455 285 25 145 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 15 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 30 20 0 5 0
Malagasy 50 0 20 30 0
Malay 25 20 0 10 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 320 220 0 95 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Creole languages 1,010 5 245 750 20
Haitian Creole 25 0 15 10 5
Creole, n.o.s. 840 5 225 595 15
Creole languages, n.i.e. 150 0 0 150 0
Dravidian languages 245 135 0 95 10
Kannada 15 10 0 5 0
Malayalam 30 25 0 10 0
Tamil 170 80 0 75 15
Telugu 30 20 0 10 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 14,460 2,030 2,815 8,675 945
Albanian 55 0 20 25 5
Armenian 265 35 25 200 10
Balto-Slavic languages 1,740 265 295 1,090 90
Baltic languages 15 0 0 20 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 0 0 15 0
Slavic languages 1,725 265 295 1,070 85
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 0 0 10 0
Bulgarian 360 35 70 235 15
Croatian 35 10 0 30 0
Czech 35 10 5 25 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 315 70 30 205 10
Russian 765 95 180 440 60
Serbian 45 10 0 30 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 0 10 0
Slovak 25 5 0 15 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 30 15 0 15 0
Ukrainian 80 15 10 55 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 5 0 0
Germanic languages 250 65 5 180 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 5 0
Dutch 35 5 0 30 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 185 55 0 130 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 0 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 1,255 350 20 800 85
Indo-Iranian languages 3,870 1,080 400 1,960 420
Indo-Aryan languages 1,810 805 25 870 115
Bengali 390 185 10 165 35
Gujarati 160 60 10 85 10
Hindi 220 115 0 100 5
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 5 0
Marathi 20 5 0 10 0
Nepali 0 0 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 5 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 395 170 0 190 30
Sindhi 15 0 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 20 10 0 10 0
Urdu 575 250 5 290 35
Iranian languages 2,035 275 375 1,085 300
Kurdish 5 0 5 5 0
Pashto 25 10 5 10 5
Persian (Farsi) 2,005 270 370 1,070 300
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 10 5 10 0
Italic (Romance) languages 7,025 225 2,055 4,415 325
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Italian 720 45 65 600 15
Portuguese 900 40 210 610 45
Romanian 1,295 30 265 940 50
Spanish 4,100 110 1,510 2,255 220
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Japanese 65 20 5 40 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 225 75 10 110 25
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 5 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages 325 10 125 160 30
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 20 0 5 20 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 20 0 5 15 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 25 0 10 15 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 45 0 25 20 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 20 0 5 15 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 60 0 30 15 10
Wolof 40 0 15 20 0
Yoruba 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 75 0 25 35 15
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 0 5 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 10 0 0
Sign languages 5 0 0 5 5
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 0 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 10,100 3,225 725 3,870 2,285
Chinese languages 10,095 3,215 720 3,865 2,290
Cantonese 4,940 1,385 265 2,010 1,280
Hakka 115 15 15 60 30
Mandarin 4,365 1,585 380 1,575 825
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 250 65 35 100 50
Wu (Shanghainese) 155 60 10 40 45
Chinese, n.o.s. 260 105 25 75 50
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 10
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 110 5 30 70 10
Lao 95 0 30 60 5
Thai 10 0 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 165 30 25 100 10
Azerbaijani 25 5 0 15 0
Turkish 145 25 20 85 10
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0
Uralic languages 120 35 5 70 5
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 115 35 5 70 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 0 5 5 0
Multiple responses 4,015 350 565 3,060 35
English and French 1,255 10 40 1,195 5
English and non-official language 795 325 5 455 5
French and non-official language 1,290 10 500 770 15
English, French and non-official language 680 10 20 640 10

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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) – Brossard, V

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.8%.
  • 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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