Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Pickering, CY
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Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 91,100 83,475 60 6,620 940
Single responses 88,450 81,290 55 6,180 930
Official languages 68,445 63,265 35 5,130 15
English 67,335 63,180 5 4,135 15
French 1,110 85 30 995 0
Non-official languages 20,000 18,025 15 1,050 910
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 20,000 18,020 20 1,050 910
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,260 1,070 5 145 40
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 60 50 0 5 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 50 40 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,205 1,015 5 140 45
Amharic 60 55 0 5 0
Arabic 1,075 900 5 130 40
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 5 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Harari 5 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 15 10 0 0 0
Maltese 25 25 0 0 0
Tigrigna 20 20 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 115 100 0 10 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 110 95 0 10 10
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,770 1,730 0 25 15
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 50 50 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 55 50 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 45 45 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,565 1,530 0 20 15
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Creole languages 85 35 5 45 5
Haitian Creole 5 0 5 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 55 15 0 35 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 5 5
Dravidian languages 1,715 1,595 0 45 80
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 180 175 0 0 10
Tamil 1,465 1,350 0 40 75
Telugu 45 45 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 12,830 11,565 5 705 560
Albanian 65 55 0 0 10
Armenian 160 130 0 25 10
Balto-Slavic languages 1,720 1,590 5 90 40
Baltic languages 55 50 0 5 0
Latvian 45 35 0 5 0
Lithuanian 15 10 0 5 0
Slavic languages 1,665 1,550 0 80 40
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 50 45 0 5 5
Croatian 75 75 0 5 0
Czech 75 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 495 465 0 10 15
Polish 530 485 0 40 10
Russian 160 135 0 15 5
Serbian 55 55 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 10 0 5 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 50 50 0 0 0
Ukrainian 95 90 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 970 900 0 65 0
Afrikaans 20 15 0 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Dutch 190 170 0 15 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 710 665 0 45 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 680 640 0 20 15
Indo-Iranian languages 6,070 5,510 0 230 330
Indo-Aryan languages 4,700 4,300 0 175 215
Bengali 410 385 0 15 10
Gujarati 740 645 0 30 60
Hindi 420 400 0 10 10
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 25 25 0 5 0
Marathi 30 30 0 5 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 600 540 0 25 35
Sindhi 120 105 0 10 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 115 115 0 0 0
Urdu 2,220 2,040 0 80 100
Iranian languages 1,370 1,205 5 55 110
Kurdish 15 10 0 5 5
Pashto 155 140 0 0 10
Persian (Farsi) 1,200 1,060 0 50 95
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,160 2,720 0 275 165
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,210 1,065 0 75 65
Portuguese 510 465 0 25 20
Romanian 435 305 0 95 30
Spanish 1,000 880 0 75 45
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Japanese 50 45 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 180 165 0 0 15
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 175 160 5 15 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 5 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 5 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 10 15 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 35 35 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 40 40 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 15 0 0 10
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 10 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,390 1,185 0 35 170
Chinese languages 1,370 1,165 0 30 170
Cantonese 645 565 0 10 75
Hakka 40 30 0 0 5
Mandarin 600 490 0 15 95
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 40 40 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 15 0 5 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 10 0 5 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 15 10 0 0 0
Lao 0 5 0 5 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 35 30 0 5 0
Uyghur 10 10 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 345 320 0 25 5
Estonian 45 40 0 5 0
Finnish 65 60 0 0 0
Hungarian 235 215 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,650 2,185 10 445 10
English and French 275 55 0 220 0
English and non-official language 2,245 2,110 0 125 10
French and non-official language 70 10 5 55 0
English, French and non-official language 55 15 0 40 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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