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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 Saint John
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 83,350 70,870 100 12,125 245
Single responses 82,715 70,595 100 11,770 250
English 75,600 67,510 0 8,080 5
French 3,895 380 90 3,430 0
Non-official languages 3,215 2,705 10 260 240
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 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 0 0 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 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 455 345 0 70 35
Italian 75 60 0 10 0
Portuguese 60 50 0 10 10
Romanian 45 30 0 10 5
Spanish 270 200 0 40 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 230 195 0 35 5
Dutch 75 65 0 15 0
Flemish 0 5 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 120 105 0 20 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 175 150 0 25 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0
Croatian 5 10 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 45 35 0 10 0
Russian 60 55 0 10 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 75 65 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 30 25 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 5 0
Turkic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 400 350 0 30 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 395 345 0 30 10
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 380 335 0 35 15
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 445 380 0 20 45
Indo-Aryan languages 320 265 0 15 35
Bengali 45 40 0 0 5
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 90 70 0 10 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 75 70 0 5 5
Nepali 55 35 0 0 20
Iranian languages 125 110 0 0 10
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 5
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 115 105 0 0 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 45 40 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 15 0 0 0
Korean 420 360 5 30 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 575 475 0 10 85
Chinese languages 575 475 5 15 85
Cantonese 35 35 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 100 0 0 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 415 345 0 10 60
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 50 45 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 140 140 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 115 115 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 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 55 45 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 10 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 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Creoles 15 15 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 35 20 0 0 20
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 10
Other languages 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 630 275 0 355 0
English and French 405 85 5 325 0
English and non-official language 205 185 0 20 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0

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

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