Mother Tongue (263), Single and Multiple Mother Tongue Responses (3), Age (7) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data

• Age (7): Total - Age
• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details mother tongue , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Saanich, DM

Mother Tongue (263)	Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
	Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses^Footnote 1	Single mother tongue responses^Footnote 2	Multiple mother tongue responses^Footnote 3
Total - Mother tongue^Footnote 4	112,880	110,895	1,980
Official languages	90,565	88,580	1,980
English	89,195	87,265	1,930
French	1,700	1,315	380
Non-official languages	23,995	22,310	1,685
Aboriginal languages	40	30	15
Algonquian languages	10	10	5
Blackfoot	0	0	0
Cree-Montagnais languages	10	5	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0
Montagnais (Innu)	0	0	0
Moose Cree	0	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0
Northern East Cree	0	0	0
Plains Cree	5	0	0
Southern East Cree	0	0	0
Swampy Cree	0	0	0
Woods Cree	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	5	5	0
Eastern Algonquian languages	0	0	0
Malecite	5	0	0
Mi'kmaq	0	0	0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	5	5	0
Algonquin	5	0	0
Ojibway	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages	0	0	0
Northern Athabaskan languages	5	0	0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0	0	0
Beaver	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0
Dene	0	0	0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0	0	0
Gwich'in	5	0	0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0	0	0
Sekani	0	0	0
Slavey-Hare languages	0	0	0
North Slavey (Hare)	0	0	0
South Slavey	0	0	0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Tahltan languages	0	0	0
Kaska (Nahani)	0	0	0
Tahltan	0	0	0
Tutchone languages	0	0	0
Northern Tutchone	0	0	0
Southern Tutchone	0	0	0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Haida	0	0	0
Inuit languages	0	0	5
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0	0	0
Inuktitut	0	0	0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0
Cayuga	0	0	0
Mohawk	0	0	0
Oneida	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0
Michif	0	0	0
Salish languages	20	5	10
Comox	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	0	0
Lillooet	0	0	0
Okanagan	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0	0	0
Squamish	0	0	0
Straits	5	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	5	0	5
Siouan languages	0	0	0
Dakota	0	0	0
Stoney	0	0	0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Tlingit	0	0	0
Tsimshian languages	0	5	0
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	5	5	0
Nisga'a	0	0	0
Tsimshian	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	5	5	0
Haisla	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0	0	0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	0	0	0
Non-Aboriginal languages	23,960	22,285	1,670
Afro-Asiatic languages	800	740	60
Berber languages	10	5	0
Kabyle	0	0	0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	10	5	0
Cushitic languages	40	40	0
Bilen	0	0	0
Oromo	10	10	0
Somali	30	30	0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Semitic languages	750	695	55
Amharic	40	35	0
Arabic	615	575	40
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0	5	0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0	0	0
Harari	0	0	0
Hebrew	55	45	5
Maltese	15	10	0
Tigrigna	30	30	5
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	540	510	35
Khmer (Cambodian)	55	50	5
Vietnamese	485	460	25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0	0	0
Austronesian languages	1,780	1,465	315
Bikol	5	5	0
Cebuano	95	85	10
Fijian	5	5	0
Hiligaynon	15	15	5
Ilocano	75	75	5
Malagasy	0	0	0
Malay	40	35	5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	5	5	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	1,515	1,225	295
Waray-Waray	5	5	0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	20	20	5
Creole languages	25	15	10
Haitian Creole	0	0	0
Creole, n.o.s.	15	10	5
Creole languages, n.i.e.	15	10	5
Dravidian languages	200	170	30
Kannada	10	5	5
Malayalam	50	35	10
Tamil	80	75	10
Telugu	60	50	10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Hmong-Mien languages	0	0	0
Indo-European languages	10,620	9,850	770
Albanian	50	40	5
Armenian	15	15	0
Balto-Slavic languages	1,515	1,445	70
Baltic languages	30	30	0
Latvian	10	10	0
Lithuanian	20	20	0
Slavic languages	1,485	1,415	70
Belarusan	0	5	0
Bosnian	5	5	0
Bulgarian	50	50	0
Croatian	240	225	15
Czech	100	90	5
Macedonian	5	5	0
Polish	330	320	15
Russian	340	315	20
Serbian	105	100	0
Serbo-Croatian	40	40	5
Slovak	35	35	0
Slovene (Slovenian)	35	35	0
Ukrainian	195	185	15
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	10	5	0
Celtic languages	30	25	5
Scottish Gaelic	5	5	0
Welsh	15	10	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Germanic languages	2,395	2,265	130
Afrikaans	70	55	15
Danish	110	105	5
Dutch	630	600	30
Frisian	10	5	0
German	1,420	1,355	65
Icelandic	10	10	0
Norwegian	65	65	5
Swedish	50	50	5
Vlaams (Flemish)	10	10	0
Yiddish	20	15	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Greek	115	105	10
Indo-Iranian languages	4,070	3,705	365
Indo-Aryan languages	3,655	3,305	350
Bengali	105	100	5
Gujarati	75	65	15
Hindi	360	295	60
Kashmiri	0	0	0
Konkani	5	5	0
Marathi	25	20	0
Nepali	40	40	0
Oriya (Odia)	0	0	0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	2,860	2,615	245
Sindhi	20	20	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	35	30	0
Urdu	140	115	25
Iranian languages	405	395	10
Kurdish	5	5	0
Pashto	20	20	0
Persian (Farsi)	380	370	10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Italic (Romance) languages	2,430	2,250	180
Catalan	0	5	0
Italian	485	450	35
Portuguese	710	685	30
Romanian	145	130	10
Spanish	1,080	980	100
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0	5	0
Japanese	695	635	60
Kartvelian languages	5	0	0
Georgian	5	5	0
Korean	820	785	30
Mongolic languages	0	0	0
Mongolian	5	5	0
Niger-Congo languages	135	110	30
Akan (Twi)	15	5	10
Bamanankan	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0
Ewe	5	5	0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	5
Ganda	0	5	0
Igbo	5	5	0
Lingala	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	5	0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	15	10	0
Shona	5	0	0
Swahili	30	30	0
Wolof	10	5	0
Yoruba	20	10	10
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	35	30	5
Nilo-Saharan languages	10	5	0
Dinka	5	5	0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Sign languages	40	30	10
American Sign Language	15	5	5
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e	25	20	5
Sino-Tibetan languages	7,795	7,500	300
Chinese languages	7,755	7,455	300
Cantonese	3,460	3,285	175
Hakka	35	35	0
Mandarin	3,705	3,605	105
Min Dong	0	5	0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	145	140	10
Wu (Shanghainese)	80	85	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	320	300	20
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	10	10	0
Tibeto-Burman languages	40	40	0
Burmese	20	20	0
Karenic languages	10	10	0
Tibetan	10	10	0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0
Tai-Kadai languages	95	90	5
Lao	5	5	5
Thai	85	85	5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	5	5	0
Turkic languages	55	55	0
Azerbaijani	5	0	0
Turkish	50	50	5
Uyghur	0	0	0
Uzbek	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0
Uralic languages	335	315	20
Estonian	10	15	0
Finnish	85	80	5
Hungarian	235	230	10
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0
Other languages, n.i.e.	10	5	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The category 'Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responses' indicates the number of respondents who reported each language, either as their only response, or in combination with another language. Total responses represent the sum of single mother tongue responses and multiple mother tongue responses received in the census.

Footnote 2

A single mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides one language only.

Footnote 3

A multiple mother tongue response occurs when a respondent provides two or more languages.

Footnote 4

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

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

Data quality note(s) – Saanich, DM

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Default. Not applicable.
• Short-form data quality flag
  Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.0%.
• 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-X2016060.