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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, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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, CY
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 104,715 95,580 35 8,830 275
Single responses 104,210 95,265 30 8,640 275
English 99,745 91,800 5 7,930 15
French 500 55 20 425 0
Non-official languages 3,960 3,415 10 280 260
Aboriginal languages 35 40 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 25 25 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 5 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 20 25 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 5 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 15 15 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 15 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 415 335 0 65 25
Italian 35 25 0 10 0
Portuguese 45 35 0 10 5
Romanian 25 15 0 10 0
Spanish 315 260 0 35 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 250 200 0 50 0
Dutch 35 30 0 10 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 5 0
German 120 85 0 30 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 75 70 0 10 0
Danish 5 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 30 25 0 5 0
Norwegian 25 25 0 0 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 335 290 0 30 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 30 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 65 60 0 5 0
Russian 150 130 5 10 10
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 5
Slovak 0 5 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 30 20 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 95 75 0 5 20
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 25 0 5 0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 5 0
Hungarian 20 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 5
Turkish 15 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 405 330 0 30 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Oromo 20 15 0 5 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 385 315 5 25 45
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0
Arabic 355 290 5 25 35
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 720 655 0 20 45
Indo-Aryan languages 595 540 0 15 40
Bengali 190 180 0 0 10
Gujarati 35 35 0 0 5
Hindi 70 70 0 0 5
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 5
Panjabi (Punjabi) 55 45 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 35 35 0 0 0
Urdu 135 115 5 10 0
Nepali 50 35 0 0 15
Iranian languages 120 105 0 5 10
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 10 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 85 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 140 135 0 0 5
Kannada 15 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 35 0 0 0
Tamil 55 55 0 5 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 5 0
Korean 55 50 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 980 890 0 30 60
Chinese languages 960 870 0 25 60
Cantonese 90 65 0 5 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 150 135 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 695 645 0 10 35
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 15 0 5 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 25 20 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 115 115 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 25 25 0 0 5
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 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 105 70 5 20 10
Akan (Twi) 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 40 5 15 10
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 5 0 0 0
Swahili 25 10 0 10 10
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 5 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 10 5 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 55 50 0 0 5
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 50 25 0 5 25
American Sign Language 30 20 0 5 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 10 0 0 15
Other languages 10 10 0 0 5
Multiple responses 505 310 0 190 5
English and French 155 25 0 135 0
English and non-official language 310 270 0 35 5
French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011033.

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