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 Kingston, CY
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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 1 120,865 103,895 265 16,065 645
Single responses 119,125 102,940 255 15,295 630
Official languages 106,665 92,435 235 13,975 25
English 102,470 92,250 5 10,190 20
French 4,195 190 225 3,780 0
Non-official languages 12,460 10,510 25 1,315 610
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 0 5 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 15 0 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 0 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 0 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 5 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 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 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 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 12,430 10,480 25 1,315 610
Afro-Asiatic languages 900 670 5 155 70
Berber languages 10 0 5 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 5 0
Cushitic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 15 15 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 875 650 5 145 70
Amharic 5 10 0 0 0
Arabic 820 605 5 150 65
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0 0 0
Tigrigna 15 10 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 220 185 0 15 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 60 55 0 0 5
Vietnamese 160 125 0 15 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 490 475 0 10 5
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 40 35 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 20 15 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 380 375 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 5 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 40 10 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 10 5 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 220 200 0 20 0
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 80 75 0 5 5
Tamil 100 85 0 15 0
Telugu 30 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,765 6,540 10 915 300
Albanian 25 20 0 0 0
Armenian 25 15 0 5 5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,135 970 0 145 25
Baltic languages 35 35 0 5 0
Latvian 15 15 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,100 935 0 145 25
Belarusan 10 10 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 5 0 5 0
Bulgarian 25 20 0 5 0
Croatian 40 35 0 5 0
Czech 110 95 0 15 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 0 0
Polish 400 345 0 55 5
Russian 245 205 0 30 10
Serbian 65 55 0 10 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Slovak 45 35 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 125 95 0 25 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 10 0 5 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,545 1,330 0 210 5
Afrikaans 30 25 0 0 0
Danish 70 60 0 5 0
Dutch 590 525 0 65 0
Frisian 20 25 0 0 0
German 770 650 0 120 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 30 25 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 330 275 0 40 10
Indo-Iranian languages 1,660 1,490 5 115 55
Indo-Aryan languages 1,195 1,095 0 75 30
Bengali 190 175 0 5 10
Gujarati 160 140 0 15 10
Hindi 205 190 0 10 5
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 10 10 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Nepali 35 35 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 190 180 0 10 0
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 30 0 0 0
Urdu 330 300 0 20 5
Iranian languages 455 380 0 45 25
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 20 20 0 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 415 350 5 40 25
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,020 2,415 10 390 205
Catalan 15 5 0 5 0
Italian 555 455 0 85 15
Portuguese 1,530 1,305 0 75 145
Romanian 85 35 0 50 5
Spanish 825 610 10 170 35
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Japanese 100 90 0 0 10
Kartvelian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Georgian 10 5 0 0 0
Korean 400 345 0 20 35
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 120 95 5 20 0
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 10 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 0 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 20 15 5 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 5 0
Yoruba 15 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 5 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 35 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 25 15 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,800 1,560 0 90 155
Chinese languages 1,770 1,530 0 90 155
Cantonese 435 355 0 25 55
Hakka 10 10 0 5 0
Mandarin 1,170 1,020 0 60 85
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 45 45 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 95 80 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 30 30 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 25 25 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 5
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 80 70 0 15 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 75 65 0 10 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 205 180 0 30 0
Estonian 25 25 0 5 0
Finnish 45 40 0 5 0
Hungarian 135 120 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,740 950 10 775 10
English and French 610 85 5 530 0
English and non-official language 975 840 0 125 10
French and non-official language 85 20 5 65 0
English, French and non-official language 60 10 0 50 0

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Footnote(s)

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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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