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
- Total - Mother tongue Footnote 1
- Single responses
- Official languages
- English
- French
- Non-official languages
- Aboriginal languages
- Non-Aboriginal languages
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- Berber languages
- Kabyle
- Berber languages, n.i.e.
- Cushitic languages
- Bilen
- Oromo
- Somali
- Cushitic languages, n.i.e.
- Semitic languages
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
- Harari
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Austro-Asiatic languages
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e
- Austronesian languages
- Bikol
- Cebuano
- Fijian
- Hiligaynon
- Ilocano
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)
- Pangasinan
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Waray-Waray
- Austronesian languages, n.i.e.
- Creole languages
- Haitian Creole
- Creole, n.o.s.
- Creole languages, n.i.e.
- Dravidian languages
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Hmong-Mien languages
- Indo-European languages
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Balto-Slavic languages
- Baltic languages
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Slavic languages
- Belarusan
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovene (Slovenian)
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Celtic languages
- Scottish Gaelic
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Germanic languages
- Afrikaans
- Danish
- Dutch
- Frisian
- German
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Vlaams (Flemish)
- Yiddish
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Greek
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kashmiri
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Oriya (Odia)
- Punjabi (Panjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Iranian languages
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Italic (Romance) languages
- Catalan
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Kartvelian languages
- Georgian
- Korean
- Mongolic languages
- Mongolian
- Niger-Congo languages
- Akan (Twi)
- Bamanankan
- Edo
- Ewe
- Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)
- Ga
- Ganda
- Igbo
- Lingala
- Rundi (Kirundi)
- Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
- Shona
- Swahili
- Wolof
- Yoruba
- Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
- Nilo-Saharan languages
- Dinka
- Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.
- Sign languages
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Chinese languages
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Min Dong
- Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)
- Wu (Shanghainese)
- Chinese, n.o.s.
- Chinese languages, n.i.e.
- Tibeto-Burman languages
- Burmese
- Karenic languages
- Tibetan
- Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.
- Tai-Kadai languages
- Lao
- Thai
- Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e
- Turkic languages
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Uralic languages
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Uralic languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages, n.i.e.
- Multiple responses
- English and French
- English and non-official language
- French and non-official language
- English, French and non-official language
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified
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