Data tables, 2016 Census

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 The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , single and multiple mother tongue responses , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Essex, T
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Mother Tongue (263) Single and multiple mother tongue responses (3)
Total - Single and multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 1 Single mother tongue responsesFootnote 2 Multiple mother tongue responsesFootnote 3
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 4 20,245 20,080 165
Official languages 18,915 18,755 165
English 18,435 18,270 160
French 555 480 75
Non-official languages 1,430 1,325 100
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 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 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 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 0 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 0 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 0
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 0 0 0
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 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
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 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 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 1,430 1,330 100
Afro-Asiatic languages 40 40 5
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Semitic languages 40 35 5
Amharic 0 0 0
Arabic 25 25 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0
Maltese 5 10 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 5 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 45 30 15
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 5 0
Ilocano 10 10 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 15 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 0 0 0
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0
Tamil 0 0 0
Telugu 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,240 1,165 75
Albanian 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 255 240 15
Baltic languages 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0
Slavic languages 250 235 15
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 0 0
Croatian 20 15 0
Czech 10 5 0
Macedonian 30 30 0
Polish 50 50 0
Russian 10 5 0
Serbian 30 30 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0
Slovak 65 65 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Celtic languages 0 0 5
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Germanic languages 365 345 25
Afrikaans 0 0 0
Danish 5 10 0
Dutch 70 70 5
Frisian 0 0 0
German 280 260 15
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0
Swedish 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 5 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages 15 20 0
Indo-Aryan languages 15 15 0
Bengali 0 0 0
Gujarati 0 0 0
Hindi 5 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 10 5 0
Sindhi 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0
Urdu 10 10 0
Iranian languages 0 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 600 560 35
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 110 105 5
Portuguese 360 330 30
Romanian 35 35 5
Spanish 90 95 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Japanese 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 10 5 0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 5 5 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 0 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 25 25 0
Chinese languages 25 25 0
Cantonese 5 5 0
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 15 15 0
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 0 5 0
Lao 5 0 0
Thai 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 60 55 5
Estonian 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0
Hungarian 50 50 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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.

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Footnote 2

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

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Footnote 3

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

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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.

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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-X2016060.

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