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
English
French
Algonquin
Atikamekw
Blackfoot
Cree
Malecite
Mi'kmaq
Montagnais-Naskapi
Ojibway
Oji-Cree
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.
Carrier
Chilcotin
Chipewyan
Dene
Dogrib
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux)
North Slave (Hare)
South Slave
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.
Haida
Mohawk
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.
Kutenai
Shuswap
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)
Salish languages, n.i.e.
Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux)
Tlingit
Gitksan
Nisga'a
Tsimshian
Nootka
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.
Inuinnaqtun
Inuktitut, n.i.e.
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.
Italian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Romance languages, n.i.e.
Dutch
Flemish
Frisian
German
Yiddish
Danish
Icelandic
Norwegian
Swedish
Germanic languages, n.i.e.
Gaelic languages
Welsh
Celtic languages, n.i.e.
Belarusian (Byelorussian)
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Macedonian
Polish
Russian
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Ukrainian
Slavic languages, n.i.e.
Latvian
Lithuanian
Estonian
Finnish
Hungarian
Greek
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Turkish
Turkic languages, n.i.e.
Berber languages (Kabyle)
Oromo
Somali
Amharic
Arabic
Hebrew
Maltese
Tigrigna
Semitic languages, n.i.e.
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.
Bengali
Gujarati
Hindi
Konkani
Marathi
Panjabi (Punjabi)
Sindhi
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
Urdu
Kurdish
Pashto
Persian (Farsi)
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.
Kannada
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
Japanese
Korean
Cantonese
Chaochow (Teochow)
Fukien
Hakka
Mandarin
Shanghainese
Taiwanese
Chinese, n.o.s.
Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.
Lao
Thai
Khmer (Cambodian)
Vietnamese
Bisayan languages
Ilocano
Malay
Pampango
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.
Akan (Twi)
Lingala
Rundi (Kirundi)
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)
Shona
Swahili
Bantu languages, n.i.e.
Edo
Igbo
Wolof
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.
African languages, n.i.e.
Creoles
American Sign Language
Quebec Sign Language
Sign languages, n.i.e.
Other languages