Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Medicine Hat, 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 61,975 59,355 10 2,325 285
Single responses 61,440 58,905 15 2,235 280
Official languages 56,405 54,275 10 2,105 5
English 55,705 54,165 0 1,530 5
French 700 110 10 575 0
Non-official languages 5,035 4,630 0 130 275
Aboriginal languages 35 35 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 20 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 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 15 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 10 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 5 5 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 5 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 5 5 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 5 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 5,000 4,595 0 130 275
Afro-Asiatic languages 440 315 0 10 105
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 30 0 0 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 25 20 0 0 0
Somali 10 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 400 290 0 10 100
Amharic 10 15 0 0 0
Arabic 375 260 0 10 105
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 75 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 25 25 0 0 5
Vietnamese 55 50 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 560 550 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 35 35 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 15 20 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 485 485 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 10 10 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 90 80 0 0 5
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 55 50 0 0 5
Tamil 25 20 0 0 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 3,160 2,995 0 105 65
Albanian 35 35 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 440 430 0 10 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 440 425 0 10 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 70 70 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 35 40 0 0 5
Czech 10 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 75 75 0 5 0
Russian 50 50 0 0 0
Serbian 20 20 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 120 110 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,605 1,565 0 35 5
Afrikaans 50 50 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Dutch 185 180 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,325 1,305 0 20 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 30 30 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 370 335 0 10 25
Indo-Aryan languages 340 310 0 5 25
Bengali 10 5 0 5 0
Gujarati 55 50 0 0 0
Hindi 45 45 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 70 55 0 0 15
Oriya (Odia) 10 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 85 80 0 0 0
Sindhi 10 10 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 55 50 0 0 5
Iranian languages 20 20 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 25 20 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 670 590 0 50 30
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 65 60 0 5 0
Portuguese 35 30 0 5 5
Romanian 30 20 0 10 5
Spanish 540 480 0 25 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 30 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 45 40 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 65 65 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 10 10 0 5 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 25 25 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 50 45 0 0 5
Dinka 20 20 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 5 0 0 0
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 345 285 0 5 55
Chinese languages 325 265 0 5 55
Cantonese 165 130 0 0 35
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 135 115 0 5 20
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 15 0 0 0
Burmese 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 15 10 0 0 5
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 50 20 0 0 25
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 40 15 0 0 30
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 0 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 65 60 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 15 15 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 45 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 540 450 0 90 0
English and French 115 45 0 70 0
English and non-official language 410 400 0 10 0
French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 0 0

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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-X2016054.

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