Plain language definition
Not applicable
Detailed definition
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.
Values (English)
Total - Detailed mother tongue
Single responses
English
French
Non-official languages
Algonquin
Atikamekw
Blackfoot
Carrier
Chilcotin
Chipewyan
Cree
Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
Dene
Dogrib
Gitksan
Inuinnaqtun
Inuktitut, n.i.e.
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
Malecite
Mi'kmaq
Mohawk
Montagnais-Naskapi
Nisga'a
North Slave (Hare)
Ojibway
Oji-Cree
Shuswap
South Slave
Tlingit
Italian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Danish
Dutch
Flemish
Frisian
German
Norwegian
Swedish
Yiddish
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Macedonian
Polish
Russian
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Ukrainian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Estonian
Finnish
Hungarian
Greek
Armenian
Turkish
Amharic
Arabic
Hebrew
Maltese
Somali
Tigrigna
Bengali
Gujarati
Hindi
Kurdish
Panjabi (Punjabi)
Pashto
Persian (Farsi)
Sindhi
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
Urdu
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Japanese
Korean
Cantonese
Chinese, n.o.s.
Mandarin
Taiwanese
Lao
Khmer (Cambodian)
Vietnamese
Bisayan languages
Ilocano
Malay
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
Akan (Twi)
Swahili
Creoles
Other languages
Multiple responses
English and French
English and non-official language
French and non-official language
English, French and non-official language