2006 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Various Languages Spoken (147), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data

Variable: Various languages spoken (147)

Definition

Values

1. English
2. French
3. Algonquin
4. Atikamekw
5. Blackfoot
6. Cree
7. Malecite
8. Mi'kmaq
9. Montagnais-Naskapi
10. Ojibway
11. Oji-Cree
12. Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
13. Carrier
14. Chilcotin
15. Chipewyan
16. Dene
17. Dogrib
18. Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
19. North Slave (Hare)
20. South Slave
21. Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
22. Haida
23. Mohawk
24. Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
25. Kutenai
26. Shuswap
27. Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
28. Salish languages, n.i.e.
29. Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
30. Tlingit
31. Gitksan
32. Nisga'a
33. Tsimshian
34. Nootka
35. Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
36. Inuinnaqtun
37. Inuktitut, n.i.e.
38. Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
39. Italian
40. Portuguese
41. Romanian
42. Spanish
43. Romance languages, n.i.e.
44. Dutch
45. Flemish
46. Frisian
47. German
48. Yiddish
49. Danish
50. Icelandic
51. Norwegian
52. Swedish
53. Germanic languages, n.i.e.
54. Gaelic languages
55. Welsh
56. Celtic languages, n.i.e.
57. Belarusian (Byelorussian)
58. Bosnian
59. Bulgarian
60. Croatian
61. Czech
62. Macedonian
63. Polish
64. Russian
65. Serbian
66. Serbo-Croatian
67. Slovak
68. Slovenian
69. Ukrainian
70. Slavic languages, n.i.e.
71. Latvian
72. Lithuanian
73. Estonian
74. Finnish
75. Hungarian
76. Greek
77. Armenian
78. Azerbaijani
79. Turkish
80. Turkic languages, n.i.e.
81. Berber languages (Kabyle)
82. Oromo
83. Somali
84. Amharic
85. Arabic
86. Hebrew
87. Maltese
88. Tigrigna
89. Semitic languages, n.i.e.
90. Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
91. Bengali
92. Gujarati
93. Hindi
94. Konkani
95. Marathi
96. Panjabi (Punjabi)
97. Sindhi
98. Sinhala (Sinhalese)
99. Urdu
100. Kurdish
101. Pashto
102. Persian (Farsi)
103. Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
104. Kannada
105. Malayalam
106. Tamil
107. Telugu
108. Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
109. Japanese
110. Korean
111. Cantonese
112. Chaochow (Teochow)
113. Fukien
114. Hakka
115. Mandarin
116. Shanghainese
117. Taiwanese
118. Chinese, n.o.s.
119. Tibetan languages
120. Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
121. Lao
122. Thai
123. Khmer (Cambodian)
124. Vietnamese
125. Bisayan languages
126. Ilocano
127. Malay
128. Pampango
129. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
130. Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
131. Akan (Twi)
132. Lingala
133. Rundi (Kirundi)
134. Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
135. Shona
136. Swahili
137. Bantu languages, n.i.e.
138. Edo
139. Igbo
140. Wolof
141. Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
142. African languages, n.i.e.
143. Creoles
144. American Sign Language
145. Quebec Sign Language
146. Sign languages, n.i.e.
147. Other languages

Note(s)

Note(s)

Number

Stub

118.

The 2006 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' includes responses of 'Chinese' as well as all Chinese languages other than Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Hakka and Shanghainese. Data for the 'Chinese, n.o.s.' category in 2001 and 2006 are not directly comparable. The 2001 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' is equivalent to the sum of the 2006 categories 'Chinese, n.o.s.' and 'Chaochow (Teochow),' 'Fukien,' 'Shanghainese' and Taiwanese.'