Data tables, 2016 Census

First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details first official language spoken , language spoken most often at home , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick
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Language spoken most often at home (269) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 3 736,285 498,370 232,450 3,215 2,255 234,055 31.8
Single responses 724,940 493,605 227,980 1,100 2,250 228,530 31.5
Official languages 712,250 484,565 227,680 0 0 227,680 32.0
English 505,935 480,240 25,695 0 0 25,695 5.1
French 206,315 4,330 201,990 0 0 201,985 97.9
Non-official languages 12,690 9,035 300 1,100 2,255 850 6.7
Aboriginal languages 820 800 0 10 5 5 0.6
Algonquian languages 815 800 0 10 5 10 1.2
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Eastern Algonquian languages 815 795 5 10 5 5 0.6
Malecite 50 50 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mi'kmaq 765 750 5 10 5 10 1.3
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Non-Aboriginal languages 11,865 8,235 300 1,085 2,245 840 7.1
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,285 760 75 245 1,205 195 8.5
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 15 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 2,265 740 75 250 1,205 200 8.8
Amharic 20 15 0 5 0 5 25.0
Arabic 2,110 605 75 235 1,205 190 9.0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hebrew 130 115 5 5 5 5 3.8
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 525 435 5 40 50 25 4.8
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 520 425 5 35 50 25 4.8
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 505 480 5 5 15 10 2.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 40 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 5 0 0 5 0 5 100.0
Malay 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 445 430 0 5 10 5 1.1
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole languages 65 40 5 15 0 10 15.4
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 20 0 5 10 0 10 50.0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 110 100 0 0 5 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0 5 25.0
Tamil 40 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Telugu 50 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 4,160 3,165 85 505 405 335 8.1
Albanian 30 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Armenian 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Balto-Slavic languages 975 790 10 100 70 60 6.2
Baltic languages 35 30 0 5 0 5 14.3
Latvian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages 935 760 10 100 70 60 6.4
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 30 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Croatian 25 25 0 5 0 5 20.0
Czech 10 5 0 0 0 5 50.0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Polish 55 45 0 10 0 5 9.1
Russian 620 510 5 55 50 35 5.6
Serbian 80 70 0 5 0 5 6.3
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 5 0 0 5 0 5 100.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ukrainian 85 70 0 10 10 5 5.9
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 640 535 5 80 25 40 6.3
Afrikaans 35 30 0 5 0 0 0.0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 155 125 0 30 5 15 9.7
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 425 360 0 35 25 25 5.9
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 50 40 0 5 5 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,140 955 5 65 115 35 3.1
Indo-Aryan languages 655 560 0 35 60 20 3.1
Bengali 125 120 0 10 0 0 0.0
Gujarati 35 30 0 0 0 5 14.3
Hindi 115 105 0 10 5 5 4.3
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 5 5 0 5 0 5 100.0
Marathi 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 135 95 0 5 35 5 3.7
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 50 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sindhi 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 145 125 0 5 10 5 3.4
Iranian languages 470 385 0 35 55 20 4.3
Kurdish 35 10 0 0 25 0 0.0
Pashto 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 425 360 5 40 30 20 4.7
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,305 810 65 250 185 190 14.6
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italian 85 60 5 20 10 10 11.8
Portuguese 110 70 5 30 10 20 18.2
Romanian 290 175 15 65 30 50 17.2
Spanish 820 505 40 140 140 110 13.4
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 25 15 5 5 5 5 20.0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Korean 1,250 1,065 5 110 75 60 4.8
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 240 75 80 70 15 115 47.9
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bamanankan 20 0 10 10 0 15 75.0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 15 5 10 0 0 10 66.7
Ga 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lingala 10 0 5 0 0 5 50.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 5 10 0 10 50.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 10 0 5 50.0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 80 20 30 20 10 40 50.0
Wolof 0 0 5 0 0 5 not applicable ...
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 20 10 10 10 20 36.4
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages 205 120 20 5 60 25 12.2
American Sign Language 55 40 5 0 15 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 150 75 20 5 45 25 16.7
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,390 1,890 15 75 405 55 2.3
Chinese languages 2,365 1,870 20 75 405 55 2.3
Cantonese 260 190 5 10 55 10 3.8
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 1,855 1,475 10 55 320 35 1.9
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 85 65 0 5 15 5 5.9
Chinese, n.o.s. 145 125 0 0 15 5 3.4
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Karenic languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai-Kadai languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thai 10 5 0 5 5 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 25 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uralic languages 70 55 0 10 0 5 7.1
Estonian 0 5 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 55 50 0 5 0 5 9.1
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 11,345 4,765 4,465 2,115 0 5,520 48.7
English and French 7,280 1,280 4,045 1,955 0 5,020 69.0
English and non-official language 3,435 3,420 15 0 0 15 0.4
French and non-official language 340 10 335 0 0 335 98.5
English, French and non-official language 285 55 70 160 0 150 52.6

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 3

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-X2016071.

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