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 Strathcona
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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 44,410 41,175 10 3,140 90
Single responses 44,075 40,930 10 3,050 85
Official languages 41,275 38,370 10 2,890 10
English 40,565 38,300 0 2,255 5
French 715 75 5 635 0
Non-official languages 2,800 2,560 5 165 75
Aboriginal languages 180 180 0 0 5
Algonquian languages 10 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 10 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 5 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 0 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 10 10 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 5 0 0 0
Chilcotin 5 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 5 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) 5 5 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 50 50 0 0 0
Comox 5 5 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. 45 45 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 5 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 105 105 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 55 55 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 50 45 0 5 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 2,620 2,380 0 160 75
Afro-Asiatic languages 25 15 0 10 0
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 0 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 25 15 0 10 0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 20 15 0 10 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 170 130 0 10 25
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 165 125 0 10 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 220 225 0 0 0
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 20 20 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 10 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 20 15 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 165 165 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 10 5 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,740 1,580 0 135 15
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 320 290 0 20 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 5 0
Slavic languages 305 290 0 20 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 5 0
Croatian 55 55 0 0 0
Czech 50 50 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 70 65 0 5 0
Russian 40 35 0 5 5
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 15 15 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 55 45 0 5 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 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 950 875 0 75 5
Afrikaans 25 25 0 5 0
Danish 60 60 0 0 0
Dutch 180 160 0 25 0
Frisian 5 10 0 0 0
German 595 550 0 40 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Greek 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 140 130 0 10 5
Indo-Aryan languages 130 115 0 5 5
Bengali 5 5 0 0 0
Gujarati 5 10 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 5 10 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 95 80 0 5 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 10 10 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 320 280 0 30 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 90 75 0 20 0
Portuguese 45 40 0 0 0
Romanian 10 10 0 0 0
Spanish 170 150 0 10 5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 75 70 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 75 65 0 0 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 5 5 0 5 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 15 0 5 0
American Sign Language 5 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 155 135 0 0 20
Chinese languages 155 140 5 0 15
Cantonese 70 55 0 0 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 65 60 0 0 5
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 5 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0 0 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 5 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 25 25 0 0 0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 20 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 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 100 100 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 60 60 0 0 0
Hungarian 40 45 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 335 245 0 90 0
English and French 85 25 0 60 0
English and non-official language 225 215 0 15 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0

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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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