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 Moncton, C
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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 70,670 36,235 1,705 32,205 525
Single responses 69,015 35,925 1,670 30,900 520
Official languages 65,295 33,745 1,500 30,035 10
English 43,720 33,440 5 10,265 10
French 21,580 310 1,500 19,770 0
Non-official languages 3,715 2,175 170 865 505
Aboriginal languages 30 25 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 25 20 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 15 15 0 5 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 20 15 0 5 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 3,685 2,155 170 860 505
Afro-Asiatic languages 755 170 40 220 325
Berber languages 15 0 0 15 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 10 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 735 165 40 205 325
Amharic 5 0 0 5 5
Arabic 705 150 35 200 320
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 5 0 5 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 210 155 0 30 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 210 155 5 30 25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 200 185 0 10 0
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 10 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 5 0 0 10 0
Malay 5 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 170 160 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 40 0 10 35 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 35 5 5 25 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 75 70 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 10 5 0 0 0
Tamil 20 15 0 5 0
Telugu 45 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,035 690 15 295 30
Albanian 15 15 0 0 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 5
Balto-Slavic languages 150 110 5 35 5
Baltic languages 0 0 0 5 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 150 105 5 30 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 30 25 0 10 0
Russian 85 60 0 20 5
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 10 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 195 150 0 45 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 5 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 60 45 0 15 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 105 75 0 25 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 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 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 225 180 0 30 10
Indo-Aryan languages 150 130 0 15 5
Bengali 30 30 0 5 5
Gujarati 20 15 0 0 0
Hindi 25 25 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 10 0 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 55 45 0 10 5
Iranian languages 70 55 5 15 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 75 50 5 15 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 425 225 15 180 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 120 45 0 70 0
Portuguese 35 25 5 10 5
Romanian 70 30 5 35 0
Spanish 195 115 5 70 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 30 20 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 370 300 0 50 20
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 325 75 100 150 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 55 0 30 30 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 5 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 40 5 15 25 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 0 0 5 0
Igbo 5 10 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 0 5 15 5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 15 5 10 5 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 50 10 10 25 0
Wolof 20 5 0 15 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 85 25 30 25 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 570 435 5 40 95
Chinese languages 550 415 5 35 90
Cantonese 110 80 0 15 20
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 395 300 5 25 65
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 20 15 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 0 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 20 15 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 5 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 30 20 0 5 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 0
Multiple responses 1,655 310 40 1,305 10
English and French 1,245 90 10 1,150 0
English and non-official language 255 215 5 40 5
French and non-official language 125 0 25 95 5
English, French and non-official language 25 5 0 20 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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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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