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 Grey
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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 92,560 92,055 505
Official languages 85,905 85,395 505
English 85,075 84,580 495
French 980 815 165
Non-official languages 7,015 6,655 360
Aboriginal languages 25 15 10
Algonquian languages 15 10 5
Blackfoot 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 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 5 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 10 0 5
Algonquin 0 0 0
Ojibway 10 5 10
Oji-Cree 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 5 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 5 5 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 6,995 6,645 350
Afro-Asiatic languages 120 105 10
Berber languages 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0
Semitic languages 115 100 10
Amharic 5 5 5
Arabic 85 75 5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0
Maltese 20 15 5
Tigrigna 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 20 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 100 85 10
Bikol 0 0 0
Cebuano 5 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 5 5 0
Ilocano 5 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 90 75 10
Waray-Waray 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5
Dravidian languages 50 40 5
Kannada 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 5
Tamil 20 15 0
Telugu 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 6,170 5,890 280
Albanian 5 10 0
Armenian 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 730 700 30
Baltic languages 50 45 0
Latvian 25 30 0
Lithuanian 20 20 0
Slavic languages 685 655 30
Belarusan 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0
Croatian 70 65 5
Czech 85 85 0
Macedonian 20 20 5
Polish 220 210 10
Russian 70 70 0
Serbian 40 35 5
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0
Slovak 35 30 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 20 0
Ukrainian 85 80 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0
Celtic languages 15 10 5
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 5
Welsh 5 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Germanic languages 4,450 4,300 150
Afrikaans 20 15 0
Danish 70 65 5
Dutch 935 910 30
Frisian 15 15 0
German 3,360 3,255 100
Icelandic 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0
Swedish 20 25 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 10 0
Yiddish 5 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Greek 65 65 5
Indo-Iranian languages 230 205 25
Indo-Aryan languages 190 170 25
Bengali 15 10 0
Gujarati 35 30 0
Hindi 30 25 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0
Marathi 0 0 0
Nepali 5 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 70 65 5
Sindhi 5 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0
Urdu 30 20 10
Iranian languages 35 35 0
Kurdish 5 5 0
Pashto 5 5 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 30 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 660 600 65
Catalan 0 0 0
Italian 240 220 20
Portuguese 190 175 15
Romanian 40 40 0
Spanish 190 160 30
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0
Japanese 30 20 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0
Korean 95 85 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 15 5 5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 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 5 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0
Yoruba 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 5 5
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Sign languages 15 15 10
American Sign Language 5 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 130 130 5
Chinese languages 130 130 5
Cantonese 70 65 5
Hakka 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 40 0
Min Dong 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 15 15 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 5 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 5 5 0
Lao 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0
Turkic languages 5 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0
Turkish 5 10 0
Uyghur 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Uralic languages 225 220 5
Estonian 35 30 0
Finnish 55 60 0
Hungarian 135 125 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5

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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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