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 Westmorland
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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 1 146,615 64,130 5,680 76,105 700
Single responses 143,575 63,675 5,625 73,585 690
Official languages 138,020 60,265 5,405 72,325 35
English 77,450 59,725 10 17,690 30
French 60,575 535 5,395 54,640 0
Non-official languages 5,550 3,410 225 1,260 660
Aboriginal languages 40 35 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 30 25 0 5 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 30 25 0 5 0
Malecite 5 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 25 25 0 5 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. 5 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 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 5 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 5,515 3,380 225 1,255 660
Afro-Asiatic languages 920 205 55 325 335
Berber languages 25 0 5 20 0
Kabyle 10 0 0 10 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 15 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 885 205 50 295 330
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 845 180 50 285 325
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 15 0 5 5
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 250 180 0 40 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 5 0
Vietnamese 245 180 0 35 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 435 420 5 15 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 10 0 0 5 0
Malay 15 15 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 380 370 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Creole languages 60 5 15 40 0
Haitian Creole 10 0 5 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 45 5 10 35 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 85 80 0 10 0
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 5 0
Tamil 25 20 0 5 0
Telugu 40 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 2,015 1,340 35 500 145
Albanian 15 15 0 0 5
Armenian 15 5 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 300 220 5 60 5
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 295 220 10 65 10
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 0
Polish 45 35 0 10 0
Russian 165 115 5 35 5
Serbian 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 25 0 10 5
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 505 385 0 115 5
Afrikaans 25 20 0 5 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Dutch 125 100 0 25 0
Frisian 10 10 0 5 0
German 310 230 0 75 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 20 15 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 320 260 0 40 20
Indo-Aryan languages 230 200 0 20 15
Bengali 40 35 0 5 0
Gujarati 20 15 0 0 5
Hindi 35 35 0 5 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Nepali 0 5 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 50 40 0 5 10
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0
Urdu 65 50 0 5 0
Iranian languages 90 60 0 25 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 65 5 25 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 840 435 30 265 110
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Italian 155 60 5 90 0
Portuguese 60 40 0 20 0
Romanian 100 50 10 40 0
Spanish 520 290 10 115 105
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 40 30 0 15 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 490 400 0 65 25
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 370 80 105 175 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 55 0 25 30 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 5 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 40 0 15 25 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 25 0 0 20 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 20 0 5 10 0
Shona 15 15 0 0 0
Swahili 55 10 15 30 0
Wolof 25 0 5 20 0
Yoruba 10 10 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 95 25 35 35 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 30 10 0 5 15
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 725 555 5 50 115
Chinese languages 710 535 5 50 115
Cantonese 140 95 0 20 25
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 455 345 5 35 80
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 5 5 0 5
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 85 80 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 20 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 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 10 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 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 55 45 0 15 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 50 35 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 5 0
Multiple responses 3,040 455 60 2,515 5
English and French 2,435 140 15 2,275 0
English and non-official language 370 305 5 60 5
French and non-official language 190 0 35 145 5
English, French and non-official language 45 5 0 40 5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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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