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.
