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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 Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2016 Census - 100% Data

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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 St. John's
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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 3 204,390 202,690 985 225 490 1,095 0.5
Single responses 202,615 201,095 900 130 490 965 0.5
Official languages 199,075 198,195 880 0 0 880 0.4
English 198,640 198,130 505 0 0 505 0.3
French 435 60 375 0 0 375 86.2
Non-official languages 3,540 2,900 15 130 490 80 2.3
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Montagnais (Innu) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 0 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 3,540 2,900 15 135 490 80 2.3
Afro-Asiatic languages 705 440 10 10 250 15 2.1
Berber languages 0 5 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 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oromo 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages 670 405 10 10 250 10 1.5
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 615 350 5 10 245 15 2.4
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 45 45 0 0 5 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 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Vietnamese 35 30 0 5 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 220 220 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 205 200 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 10 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 75 70 0 5 5 5 6.7
Kannada 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 1,270 1,095 5 90 90 45 3.5
Albanian 30 15 0 0 10 0 0.0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Balto-Slavic languages 145 120 0 15 10 10 6.9
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 145 120 0 15 10 10 6.9
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 5 5 0 0.0
Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Czech 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Polish 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Russian 85 70 0 10 5 5 5.9
Serbian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slovak 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ukrainian 10 5 0 5 5 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 105 90 0 15 0 5 4.8
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Danish 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 45 35 0 10 0 10 22.2
Icelandic 15 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 690 635 0 10 40 5 0.7
Indo-Aryan languages 525 490 0 10 25 5 1.0
Bengali 145 135 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hindi 55 55 0 0 0 0 0.0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 95 80 0 5 15 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Punjabi (Panjabi) 65 60 0 5 0 0 0.0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 95 90 0 0 0 5 5.3
Iranian languages 145 135 0 0 10 5 3.4
Kurdish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pashto 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 135 125 0 5 5 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Italic (Romance) languages 295 225 0 45 25 25 8.5
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Italian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Portuguese 40 30 0 5 5 0 0.0
Romanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Spanish 225 170 0 40 20 20 8.9
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Korean 60 50 0 0 10 0 0.0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 95 45 5 15 25 15 15.8
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lingala 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0 5 100.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 45 15 5 5 20 10 22.2
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yoruba 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sign languages 100 70 0 0 25 0 0.0
American Sign Language 35 25 0 0 10 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 60 40 0 5 15 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 895 810 0 5 80 5 0.6
Chinese languages 885 800 0 5 75 5 0.6
Cantonese 110 90 0 0 15 0 0.0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 685 630 0 5 50 5 0.7
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chinese, n.o.s. 70 65 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibetan 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 25 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uralic languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 1,775 1,595 85 90 0 135 7.6
English and French 220 95 55 65 0 90 40.9
English and non-official language 1,485 1,480 5 0 0 0 0.0
French and non-official language 20 5 20 0 0 15 75.0
English, French and non-official language 45 15 5 25 0 20 44.4

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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-X2016072.

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