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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in St. John's South - Mount Pearl / St. John's-Sud - Mount Pearl
Detailed mother tongue (232) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Detailed mother tongue 82,190 76,410 15 5,635 135
Single responses 81,970 76,270 20 5,550 135
English 80,205 74,975 5 5,215 5
French 285 45 5 235 0
Non-official languages 1,480 1,250 10 95 125
Aboriginal languages 20 15 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 10 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 10 10 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 5 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 10 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 180 155 0 20 10
Italian 10 10 0 0 0
Portuguese 30 30 0 0 0
Romanian 10 5 0 5 0
Spanish 135 120 0 5 10
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 110 95 0 20 0
Dutch 20 10 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 55 45 0 10 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 35 30 0 5 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 10 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 5 0
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 160 140 0 10 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 20 20 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 20 15 0 5 0
Russian 90 75 0 5 5
Serbian 5 5 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 5
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 15 10 0 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 35 30 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 10 15 0 0 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 5 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 180 135 0 15 30
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 175 130 0 15 30
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0
Arabic 165 125 5 10 25
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 0 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 175 155 5 5 10
Indo-Aryan languages 150 130 5 10 15
Bengali 45 40 0 0 5
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0
Urdu 35 30 0 5 0
Nepali 15 10 0 0 0
Iranian languages 25 20 0 5 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 15 20 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 20 20 0 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 5
Korean 15 10 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 340 305 0 10 20
Chinese languages 330 295 0 15 25
Cantonese 45 35 0 0 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 50 40 0 0 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 230 210 0 5 10
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 10 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 40 35 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 10 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 25 25 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 5 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 20 15 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 10 5 5 5 0
Lingala 5 0 5 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Creoles 10 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 40 20 0 0 20
American Sign Language 25 15 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 5 0 0 10
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 220 140 0 80 0
English and French 80 15 0 65 0
English and non-official language 120 110 0 5 0
French and non-official language 15 10 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 5 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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