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2006 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Detailed Mother Tongue (103), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data

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St. John's
Detailed mother tongue (103) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Note(s) :
  1. CHINESE, N.O.S.
    The 2006 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' includes responses of 'Chinese' as well as all Chinese languages other than Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien, Hakka and Shanghainese. Data for the 'Chinese, n.o.s.' category in 2001 and 2006 are not directly comparable. The 2001 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' is equivalent to the sum of the 2006 categories 'Chinese, n.o.s.' and 'Chaochow (Teochow),' 'Fukien,' 'Shanghainese' and Taiwanese.'
  2. OTHER LANGUAGES
    This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix G in the 2006 Census Dictionary.
Total - Detailed mother tongue 179,270 166,385 15 12,655 215
Single responses 178,880 166,125 15 12,530 215
English 174,485 162,805 0 11,655 20
French 535 15 10 510 0
Non-official languages 3,865 3,305 10 360 195
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Chipewyan 0 0 0 0 0
Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux) 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Kutchin-Gwich'in (Loucheux) 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais-Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
North Slave (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap 0 0 0 0 0
South Slave 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 75 60 0 15 0
Portuguese 100 90 0 15 0
Romanian 45 30 0 0 15
Spanish 480 370 0 75 35
Danish 0 0 0 0 0
Dutch 100 95 0 0 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 265 185 0 75 0
Norwegian 35 40 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 75 60 0 20 0
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 25 25 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 70 65 0 0 0
Russian 165 130 0 15 20
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 20 20 0 0 0
Slovenian 15 10 0 10 0
Ukrainian 55 55 0 0 0
Latvian 10 0 0 10 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 45 40 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 25 0 0 0
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 180 135 0 0 30
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 10 0 0 10 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Bengali 140 130 0 0 10
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 0
Hindi 40 40 0 0 0
Kurdish 10 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 65 60 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 40 30 0 10 10
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0
Urdu 260 215 0 35 10
Malayalam 30 25 0 10 0
Tamil 55 50 0 0 0
Telugu 50 50 0 0 0
Japanese 40 40 0 0 0
Korean 35 35 0 0 0
Cantonese 155 140 0 0 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 1 475 450 0 0 20
Mandarin 80 75 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 0 0 15 0
Bisayan languages 25 30 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 30 30 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 15 15 0 0 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages 2 320 270 0 30 20
Multiple responses 390 260 0 125 0
English and French 110 40 0 75 0
English and non-official language 230 220 0 15 0
French and non-official language 30 0 0 30 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0
Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population, Statistics Canada catalogue no. 97-555-XCB2006014 (St. John's, Code001)
Date Modified: 2011-04-07

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