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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 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 75,290 65,260 90 9,720 225
Single responses 74,765 65,005 90 9,445 225
English 68,540 62,340 5 6,190 5
French 3,495 365 80 3,045 0
Non-official languages 2,735 2,295 5 215 220
Aboriginal languages 10 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 5 0 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 385 285 0 65 35
Italian 50 35 0 10 5
Portuguese 60 40 0 10 10
Romanian 45 35 0 10 5
Spanish 230 165 0 35 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 185 160 0 25 0
Dutch 70 60 0 5 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 95 80 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 5 0
Danish 5 5 0 5 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 145 125 0 15 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 40 30 0 5 0
Russian 60 50 0 10 0
Serbian 10 10 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 55 45 0 10 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 25 0 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 380 335 0 30 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 375 330 0 25 10
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 365 320 0 30 15
Hebrew 0 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 415 355 0 20 40
Indo-Aryan languages 300 255 0 15 35
Bengali 30 25 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 90 75 0 5 5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 75 70 0 0 5
Nepali 55 35 0 0 20
Iranian languages 115 105 0 5 10
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 100 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 30 0 5 0
Kannada 10 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 5 10 0 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 10 10 0 0 0
Korean 245 210 0 20 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 540 435 0 15 85
Chinese languages 535 435 5 15 80
Cantonese 35 25 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 85 0 0 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 390 315 5 15 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 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 45 40 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 0 5
Malayo-Polynesian languages 135 125 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 105 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 40 35 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 5 0
Bantu languages 20 10 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0
Creoles 10 15 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 35 15 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 10
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 525 255 0 275 0
English and French 320 75 0 245 0
English and non-official language 190 170 0 15 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 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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