Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (187), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Number of languages known (11), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

About this variable: Mother tongue (187)

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. Single responses
  3. Official languages
  4. English
  5. French
  6. Non-official languages
  7. Aboriginal languages
  8. Non-Aboriginal languages
  9. Afro-Asiatic languages
  10. Berber languages
  11. Kabyle
  12. Berber languages, n.i.e.
  13. Cushitic languages
  14. Bilen
  15. Oromo
  16. Somali
  17. Cushitic languages, n.i.e.
  18. Semitic languages
  19. Amharic
  20. Arabic
  21. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
  22. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
  23. Harari
  24. Hebrew
  25. Maltese
  26. Tigrigna
  27. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  28. Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
  29. Austro-Asiatic languages
  30. Khmer (Cambodian)
  31. Vietnamese
  32. Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e
  33. Austronesian languages
  34. Bikol
  35. Cebuano
  36. Fijian
  37. Hiligaynon
  38. Ilocano
  39. Malagasy
  40. Malay
  41. Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)
  42. Pangasinan
  43. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
  44. Waray-Waray
  45. Austronesian languages, n.i.e.
  46. Creole languages
  47. Haitian Creole
  48. Creole, n.o.s.
  49. Creole languages, n.i.e.
  50. Dravidian languages
  51. Kannada
  52. Malayalam
  53. Tamil
  54. Telugu
  55. Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
  56. Hmong-Mien languages
  57. Indo-European languages
  58. Albanian
  59. Armenian
  60. Balto-Slavic languages
  61. Baltic languages
  62. Latvian
  63. Lithuanian
  64. Slavic languages
  65. Belarusan
  66. Bosnian
  67. Bulgarian
  68. Croatian
  69. Czech
  70. Macedonian
  71. Polish
  72. Russian
  73. Serbian
  74. Serbo-Croatian
  75. Slovak
  76. Slovene (Slovenian)
  77. Ukrainian
  78. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  79. Celtic languages
  80. Scottish Gaelic
  81. Welsh
  82. Celtic languages, n.i.e.
  83. Germanic languages
  84. Afrikaans
  85. Danish
  86. Dutch
  87. Frisian
  88. German
  89. Icelandic
  90. Norwegian
  91. Swedish
  92. Vlaams (Flemish)
  93. Yiddish
  94. Germanic languages, n.i.e.
  95. Greek
  96. Indo-Iranian languages
  97. Indo-Aryan languages
  98. Bengali
  99. Gujarati
  100. Hindi
  101. Kashmiri
  102. Konkani
  103. Marathi
  104. Nepali
  105. Oriya (Odia)
  106. Punjabi (Panjabi)
  107. Sindhi
  108. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
  109. Urdu
  110. Iranian languages
  111. Kurdish
  112. Pashto
  113. Persian (Farsi)
  114. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  115. Italic (Romance) languages
  116. Catalan
  117. Italian
  118. Portuguese
  119. Romanian
  120. Spanish
  121. Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.
  122. Japanese
  123. Kartvelian languages
  124. Georgian
  125. Korean
  126. Mongolic languages
  127. Mongolian
  128. Niger-Congo languages
  129. Akan (Twi)
  130. Bamanankan
  131. Edo
  132. Ewe
  133. Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)
  134. Ga
  135. Ganda
  136. Igbo
  137. Lingala
  138. Rundi (Kirundi)
  139. Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
  140. Shona
  141. Swahili
  142. Wolof
  143. Yoruba
  144. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  145. Nilo-Saharan languages
  146. Dinka
  147. Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.
  148. Sign languages
  149. American Sign Language
  150. Quebec Sign Language
  151. Sign languages, n.i.e
  152. Sino-Tibetan languages
  153. Chinese languages
  154. Cantonese
  155. Hakka
  156. Mandarin
  157. Min Dong
  158. Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)
  159. Wu (Shanghainese)
  160. Chinese, n.o.s.
  161. Chinese languages, n.i.e.
  162. Tibeto-Burman languages
  163. Burmese
  164. Karenic languages
  165. Tibetan
  166. Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.
  167. Tai-Kadai languages
  168. Lao
  169. Thai
  170. Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e
  171. Turkic languages
  172. Azerbaijani
  173. Turkish
  174. Uyghur
  175. Uzbek
  176. Turkic languages, n.i.e.
  177. Uralic languages
  178. Estonian
  179. Finnish
  180. Hungarian
  181. Uralic languages, n.i.e.
  182. Other languages, n.i.e.
  183. Multiple responses
  184. English and French
  185. English and non-official language
  186. French and non-official language
  187. English, French and non-official language

Footnotes

Footnote 1

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

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