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Language Used Most Often at Work (8), Language Used Regularly at Work (9), Detailed Mother Tongue (160), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (8) and Language Spoken at Home on a Regular Basis (9) for Population 15 Years and Over Who Worked Since 2000, for Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2001 Census - 20% Sample Data

About this variable: Detailed Mother Tongue (160)

Definition

Mother Tongue
Part A - Plain Language Definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed Definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.

Values

  1. Total - Detailed mother tongue
  2. Single responses
  3. English
  4. French
  5. Non-official languages
  6. Aboriginal languages
  7. Algonquian languages
  8. Algonquin
  9. Attikamekw
  10. Blackfoot
  11. Cree
  12. Malecite
  13. Micmac
  14. Montagnais-Naskapi
  15. Ojibway
  16. Oji-Cree
  17. Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
  18. Athapaskan languages
  19. Carrier
  20. Chilcotin
  21. Chipewyan
  22. Dene
  23. Dogrib
  24. Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
  25. North Slave (Hare)
  26. South Slave
  27. Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
  28. Haida
  29. Iroquoian languages
  30. Mohawk
  31. Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
  32. Kutenai
  33. Salish languages
  34. Shuswap
  35. Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
  36. Salish languages, n.i.e.
  37. Siouan languages
  38. Dakota/Sioux
  39. Tlingit
  40. Tsimshian languages
  41. Tsimshian
  42. Gitksan
  43. Nishga
  44. Wakashan languages
  45. Nootka
  46. Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
  47. Inuktitut (Eskimo)
  48. Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
  49. Romance languages
  50. Italian
  51. Portuguese
  52. Romanian
  53. Spanish
  54. Romance languages, n.i.e.
  55. Germanic languages
  56. German
  57. Yiddish
  58. Netherlandic languages
  59. Dutch
  60. Flemish
  61. Frisian
  62. Scandinavian languages
  63. Danish
  64. Icelandic
  65. Norwegian
  66. Swedish
  67. Germanic languages, n.i.e.
  68. Celtic languages
  69. Gaelic languages
  70. Welsh
  71. Celtic languages, n.i.e.
  72. Slavic languages
  73. Bulgarian
  74. Byelorussian
  75. Croatian
  76. Czech
  77. Macedonian
  78. Polish
  79. Russian
  80. Serbian
  81. Serbo-Croatian
  82. Slovak
  83. Slovenian
  84. Ukrainian
  85. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
  86. Baltic languages
  87. Latvian (Lettish)
  88. Lithuanian
  89. Finno-Ugric languages
  90. Estonian
  91. Finnish
  92. Hungarian
  93. Greek
  94. Armenian
  95. Turkic languages
  96. Turkish
  97. Turkic languages, n.i.e.
  98. Semitic languages
  99. Amharic
  100. Arabic
  101. Hebrew
  102. Maltese
  103. Somali
  104. Tigringa
  105. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
  106. Indo-Iranian languages
  107. Bengali
  108. Gujarati
  109. Hindi
  110. Konkani
  111. Kurdish
  112. Marathi
  113. Pashto
  114. Persian (Farsi)
  115. Punjabi
  116. Sindhi
  117. Sinhalese
  118. Urdu
  119. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
  120. Dravidian languages
  121. Kannada
  122. Malayalam
  123. Tamil
  124. Telugu
  125. Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
  126. Japanese
  127. Korean
  128. Sino-Tibetan languages
  129. Chinese
  130. Cantonese
  131. Mandarin
  132. Hakka
  133. Chinese, n.o.s. Footnote 133
  134. Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
  135. Tai languages
  136. Lao
  137. Thai
  138. Austro-Asiatic languages
  139. Khmer (Cambodian)
  140. Vietnamese
  141. Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
  142. Malayo-Polynesian languages
  143. Malay-Bahasa
  144. Tagalog (Pilipino)
  145. Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
  146. Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
  147. Niger-Congo Languages
  148. Bantu languages
  149. Swahili
  150. Bantu languages, n.i.e.
  151. Twi
  152. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
  153. African languages, n.i.e.
  154. Creoles
  155. Other languages
  156. Multiple responses
  157. English and French
  158. English and non-official language
  159. French and non-official language
  160. English, French and non-official language

Footnotes

Footnote 133

The 1996 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' contains all responses of 'Chinese', including 'Mandarin', 'Cantonese' and 'Hakka'. Therefore it is not equivalent to the 2001 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' but rather, equal to the sum of the 2001 categories of 'Chinese, n.o.s.', 'Mandarin', 'Cantonese' and 'Hakka'.

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