Data tables, 2016 Census
Mother Tongue (8), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (187), Other Language Spoken Regularly at Home (9), Generation Status (6), Age (8B) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data
About this variable: Language spoken most often at home (187)
Definition
Language spoken most often at home
'Language spoken most often at home' refers to the language the person speaks most often at home at the time of data collection. A person can report more than one language as 'spoken most often at home' if the languages are spoken equally often.
For a person who lives alone, the language spoken most often at home is the language in which he or she feels most comfortable. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this is the language spoken most often to the child at home. Where two languages are spoken to the child, the language spoken most often at home is the language spoken most often. If both languages are used equally often, then both languages are included here.
Values
- Total - Language spoken most often at home Footnote 1
- Single responses
- Official languages
- English
- French
- Non-official languages
- Aboriginal languages
- Non-Aboriginal languages
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- Berber languages
- Kabyle
- Berber languages, n.i.e.
- Cushitic languages
- Bilen
- Oromo
- Somali
- Cushitic languages, n.i.e.
- Semitic languages
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
- Harari
- Hebrew
- Maltese
- Tigrigna
- Semitic languages, n.i.e.
- Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
- Austro-Asiatic languages
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Vietnamese
- Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e
- Austronesian languages
- Bikol
- Cebuano
- Fijian
- Hiligaynon
- Ilocano
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)
- Pangasinan
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
- Waray-Waray
- Austronesian languages, n.i.e.
- Creole languages
- Haitian Creole
- Creole, n.o.s.
- Creole languages, n.i.e.
- Dravidian languages
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
- Hmong-Mien languages
- Indo-European languages
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Balto-Slavic languages
- Baltic languages
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Slavic languages
- Belarusan
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Slovak
- Slovene (Slovenian)
- Ukrainian
- Slavic languages, n.i.e.
- Celtic languages
- Scottish Gaelic
- Welsh
- Celtic languages, n.i.e.
- Germanic languages
- Afrikaans
- Danish
- Dutch
- Frisian
- German
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Vlaams (Flemish)
- Yiddish
- Germanic languages, n.i.e.
- Greek
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kashmiri
- Konkani
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Oriya (Odia)
- Punjabi (Panjabi)
- Sindhi
- Sinhala (Sinhalese)
- Urdu
- Iranian languages
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
- Italic (Romance) languages
- Catalan
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.
- Japanese
- Kartvelian languages
- Georgian
- Korean
- Mongolic languages
- Mongolian
- Niger-Congo languages
- Akan (Twi)
- Bamanankan
- Edo
- Ewe
- Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)
- Ga
- Ganda
- Igbo
- Lingala
- Rundi (Kirundi)
- Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
- Shona
- Swahili
- Wolof
- Yoruba
- Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
- Nilo-Saharan languages
- Dinka
- Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.
- Sign languages
- American Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Sign languages, n.i.e
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Chinese languages
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Mandarin
- Min Dong
- Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)
- Wu (Shanghainese)
- Chinese, n.o.s.
- Chinese languages, n.i.e.
- Tibeto-Burman languages
- Burmese
- Karenic languages
- Tibetan
- Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.
- Tai-Kadai languages
- Lao
- Thai
- Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e
- Turkic languages
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Turkic languages, n.i.e.
- Uralic languages
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Uralic languages, n.i.e.
- Other languages, n.i.e.
- Multiple responses
- English and French
- English and non-official language
- French and non-official language
- English, French and non-official language
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified
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