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

About this variable: Mother Tongue (263)

Definition

Mother tongue
'Mother tongue' refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the person at the time the data was collected. If the person no longer understands the first language learned, the mother tongue is the second language learned. For a person who learned two languages at the same time in early childhood, the mother tongue is the language this person spoke most often at home before starting school. The person has two mother tongues only if the two languages were used equally often and are still understood by the person. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, the mother tongue is the language spoken most often to this child at home. The child has two mother tongues only if both languages are spoken equally often so that the child learns both languages at the same time.


Values

  1. Total - Mother tongue Footnote 1
  2. Official languages
  3. English
  4. French
  5. Non-official languages
  6. Aboriginal languages
  7. Algonquian languages
  8. Blackfoot
  9. Cree-Montagnais languages
  10. Atikamekw
  11. Montagnais (Innu)
  12. Moose Cree
  13. Naskapi
  14. Northern East Cree
  15. Plains Cree
  16. Southern East Cree
  17. Swampy Cree
  18. Woods Cree
  19. Cree, n.o.s.
  20. Eastern Algonquian languages
  21. Malecite
  22. Mi'kmaq
  23. Ojibway-Potawatomi languages
  24. Algonquin
  25. Ojibway
  26. Oji-Cree
  27. Ottawa (Odawa)
  28. Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
  29. Athabaskan languages
  30. Northern Athabaskan languages
  31. Babine (Wetsuwet'en)
  32. Beaver
  33. Carrier
  34. Chilcotin
  35. Dene
  36. Dogrib (Tlicho)
  37. Gwich'in
  38. Sarsi (Sarcee)
  39. Sekani
  40. Slavey-Hare languages
  41. North Slavey (Hare)
  42. South Slavey
  43. Slavey, n.o.s.
  44. Tahltan languages
  45. Kaska (Nahani)
  46. Tahltan
  47. Tutchone languages
  48. Northern Tutchone
  49. Southern Tutchone
  50. Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.
  51. Haida
  52. Inuit languages
  53. Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)
  54. Inuktitut
  55. Inuit languages, n.i.e.
  56. Iroquoian languages
  57. Cayuga
  58. Mohawk
  59. Oneida
  60. Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
  61. Kutenai
  62. Michif
  63. Salish languages
  64. Comox
  65. Halkomelem
  66. Lillooet
  67. Okanagan
  68. Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)
  69. Squamish
  70. Straits
  71. Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
  72. Salish languages, n.i.e.
  73. Siouan languages
  74. Dakota
  75. Stoney
  76. Siouan languages, n.i.e.
  77. Tlingit
  78. Tsimshian languages
  79. Gitxsan (Gitksan)
  80. Nisga'a
  81. Tsimshian
  82. Wakashan languages
  83. Haisla
  84. Heiltsuk
  85. Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)
  86. Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
  87. Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
  88. Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.
  89. Non-Aboriginal languages
  90. Afro-Asiatic languages
  91. Berber languages
  92. Kabyle
  93. Berber languages, n.i.e.
  94. Cushitic languages
  95. Bilen
  96. Oromo
  97. Somali
  98. Cushitic languages, n.i.e.
  99. Semitic languages
  100. Amharic
  101. Arabic
  102. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
  103. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
  104. Harari
  105. Hebrew
  106. Maltese
  107. Tigrigna
  108. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  109. Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
  110. Austro-Asiatic languages
  111. Khmer (Cambodian)
  112. Vietnamese
  113. Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e
  114. Austronesian languages
  115. Bikol
  116. Cebuano
  117. Fijian
  118. Hiligaynon
  119. Ilocano
  120. Malagasy
  121. Malay
  122. Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)
  123. Pangasinan
  124. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
  125. Waray-Waray
  126. Austronesian languages, n.i.e.
  127. Creole languages
  128. Haitian Creole
  129. Creole, n.o.s.
  130. Creole languages, n.i.e.
  131. Dravidian languages
  132. Kannada
  133. Malayalam
  134. Tamil
  135. Telugu
  136. Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
  137. Hmong-Mien languages
  138. Indo-European languages
  139. Albanian
  140. Armenian
  141. Balto-Slavic languages
  142. Baltic languages
  143. Latvian
  144. Lithuanian
  145. Slavic languages
  146. Belarusan
  147. Bosnian
  148. Bulgarian
  149. Croatian
  150. Czech
  151. Macedonian
  152. Polish
  153. Russian
  154. Serbian
  155. Serbo-Croatian
  156. Slovak
  157. Slovene (Slovenian)
  158. Ukrainian
  159. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  160. Celtic languages
  161. Scottish Gaelic
  162. Welsh
  163. Celtic languages, n.i.e.
  164. Germanic languages
  165. Afrikaans
  166. Danish
  167. Dutch
  168. Frisian
  169. German
  170. Icelandic
  171. Norwegian
  172. Swedish
  173. Vlaams (Flemish)
  174. Yiddish
  175. Germanic languages, n.i.e.
  176. Greek
  177. Indo-Iranian languages
  178. Indo-Aryan languages
  179. Bengali
  180. Gujarati
  181. Hindi
  182. Kashmiri
  183. Konkani
  184. Marathi
  185. Nepali
  186. Oriya (Odia)
  187. Punjabi (Panjabi)
  188. Sindhi
  189. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
  190. Urdu
  191. Iranian languages
  192. Kurdish
  193. Pashto
  194. Persian (Farsi)
  195. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  196. Italic (Romance) languages
  197. Catalan
  198. Italian
  199. Portuguese
  200. Romanian
  201. Spanish
  202. Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.
  203. Japanese
  204. Kartvelian languages
  205. Georgian
  206. Korean
  207. Mongolic languages
  208. Mongolian
  209. Niger-Congo languages
  210. Akan (Twi)
  211. Bamanankan
  212. Edo
  213. Ewe
  214. Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)
  215. Ga
  216. Ganda
  217. Igbo
  218. Lingala
  219. Rundi (Kirundi)
  220. Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
  221. Shona
  222. Swahili
  223. Wolof
  224. Yoruba
  225. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  226. Nilo-Saharan languages
  227. Dinka
  228. Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.
  229. Sign languages
  230. American Sign Language
  231. Quebec Sign Language
  232. Sign languages, n.i.e
  233. Sino-Tibetan languages
  234. Chinese languages
  235. Cantonese
  236. Hakka
  237. Mandarin
  238. Min Dong
  239. Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)
  240. Wu (Shanghainese)
  241. Chinese, n.o.s.
  242. Chinese languages, n.i.e.
  243. Tibeto-Burman languages
  244. Burmese
  245. Karenic languages
  246. Tibetan
  247. Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.
  248. Tai-Kadai languages
  249. Lao
  250. Thai
  251. Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e
  252. Turkic languages
  253. Azerbaijani
  254. Turkish
  255. Uyghur
  256. Uzbek
  257. Turkic languages, n.i.e.
  258. Uralic languages
  259. Estonian
  260. Finnish
  261. Hungarian
  262. Uralic languages, n.i.e.
  263. Other languages, n.i.e.

Footnotes

Footnote 1

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.

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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