Whitehorse (City of)
Mother Tongue Census 2016
Topic | Value |
---|---|
Total - Mother tongue for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data | 24,780 |
Single responses | 24,330 |
English | 20,440 |
French | 1,060 |
Aboriginal languages | 150 |
Cree-Montagnais languages | 5 |
Algonquin | 0 |
Ojibway | 0 |
Dene | 5 |
Gwich'in | 40 |
North Slavey (Hare) | 0 |
Slavey, n.o.s. | 0 |
Kaska (Nahani) | 10 |
Tahltan | 5 |
Northern Tutchone | 20 |
Southern Tutchone | 20 |
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. | 5 |
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) | 5 |
Inuktitut | 5 |
Salish languages | 0 |
Tlingit | 10 |
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. | 5 |
Non-Aboriginal languages | 2,675 |
Somali | 5 |
Amharic | 0 |
Arabic | 30 |
Hebrew | 5 |
Semitic languages, n.i.e. | 0 |
Vietnamese | 50 |
Cebuano | 70 |
Fijian | 5 |
Hiligaynon | 30 |
Ilocano | 30 |
Malay | 10 |
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) | 5 |
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) | 730 |
Waray-Waray | 5 |
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. | 0 |
Creole, n.o.s. | 15 |
Creole languages, n.i.e. | 10 |
Malayalam | 20 |
Tamil | 20 |
Telugu | 5 |
Albanian | 5 |
Baltic languages | 5 |
Bosnian | 5 |
Bulgarian | 5 |
Croatian | 5 |
Czech | 25 |
Polish | 35 |
Russian | 65 |
Serbian | 5 |
Serbo-Croatian | 5 |
Slovak | 5 |
Slovene (Slovenian) | 10 |
Ukrainian | 35 |
Welsh | 5 |
Celtic languages, n.i.e. | 0 |
Afrikaans | 10 |
Danish | 15 |
Dutch | 65 |
German | 345 |
Icelandic | 0 |
Norwegian | 5 |
Swedish | 10 |
Vlaams (Flemish) | 0 |
Greek | 5 |
Bengali | 20 |
Gujarati | 15 |
Hindi | 30 |
Punjabi (Panjabi) | 80 |
Sinhala (Sinhalese) | 5 |
Urdu | 20 |
Persian (Farsi) | 25 |
Catalan | 5 |
Italian | 15 |
Portuguese | 10 |
Romanian | 15 |
Spanish | 140 |
Japanese | 90 |
Korean | 45 |
Mongolian | 0 |
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) | 0 |
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. | 10 |
American Sign Language | 5 |
Sign languages, n.i.e | 5 |
Cantonese | 195 |
Mandarin | 90 |
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) | 10 |
Chinese, n.o.s. | 10 |
Lao | 0 |
Thai | 20 |
Finnish | 15 |
Hungarian | 40 |
Other languages, n.i.e. | 0 |
Multiple responses | 450 |
English and French | 170 |
English and non-official language | 255 |
French and non-official language | 10 |
English, French and non-official language | 15 |
Last Updated: 2018-10-30
Footnote: n.i.e.= not included eleswhere; n.o.s.= not otherwise stated. A value of "0" in any given cell represents one of the following: 1) value is actually zero; 2) value may be random rounded to zero; or 3) value is more than zero but is suppressed for confidentiality reasons. This table is based on 100% data. Values have been subjected to a confidentiality procedure known as random rounding. For Statistics Canada's definition of terms, click here..
Source: Statistics Canada. 2017. Census Profile. 2016 Census.Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-316-X2016001. Ottawa. Released November 29 2017. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E (accessed January 8, 2018). Statistics Canada. 2018. 2016 Semi-custom Profile of Yukon Territory and Selected Regions, 2016 Census. CRO0164437. Ottawa. February 13, 2018.