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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 Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 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
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 194,935 180,240 40 14,340 310
Single responses 194,300 179,870 40 14,090 305
English 188,970 175,855 5 13,085 20
French 815 115 30 670 0
Non-official languages 4,525 3,900 10 330 280
Aboriginal languages 45 45 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 5 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 20 20 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 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 25 20 0 0 0
Inuktitut 15 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 495 395 0 75 25
Italian 50 40 0 10 0
Portuguese 60 45 0 15 5
Romanian 30 20 0 10 0
Spanish 345 285 0 40 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 375 315 0 60 0
Dutch 50 45 0 10 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 195 155 0 40 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 100 90 0 10 0
Danish 25 20 0 5 0
Icelandic 30 30 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 30 0 5 0
Swedish 15 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 410 355 5 35 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 45 45 0 0 0
Croatian 20 20 0 0 0
Czech 20 20 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 5
Polish 70 65 0 10 0
Russian 180 155 5 10 10
Serbian 15 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 0 0 5 5
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Latvian 10 10 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 45 35 0 5 0
Armenian 5 0 0 0 0
Albanian 100 80 0 0 20
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 35 30 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 25 20 0 0 0
Turkic languages 45 40 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 10 5 0 0 0
Turkish 25 20 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 430 350 5 35 45
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 15 0 0 0
Oromo 15 20 0 5 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 410 335 5 35 45
Amharic 10 10 0 0 5
Arabic 370 305 5 30 40
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 10 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 755 685 0 25 45
Indo-Aryan languages 620 560 0 20 40
Bengali 190 180 0 0 10
Gujarati 40 35 0 0 5
Hindi 80 75 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 25 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 60 55 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 35 0 0 0
Urdu 135 125 0 10 0
Nepali 50 35 0 0 15
Iranian languages 130 110 0 10 10
Kurdish 10 15 0 0 0
Pashto 15 10 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 95 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 150 145 0 5 5
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 40 35 0 0 0
Tamil 65 60 0 0 0
Telugu 35 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 25 25 0 5 0
Korean 65 55 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,045 950 0 30 65
Chinese languages 1,030 935 0 30 65
Cantonese 105 90 0 5 15
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 165 145 0 5 10
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 730 675 0 15 40
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Tai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 30 25 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 150 150 0 0 5
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 30 30 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 110 110 0 0 0
Bikol 0 5 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 10 25 5
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 70 40 5 25 5
Lingala 5 0 5 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 5 0
Swahili 30 15 0 5 5
Ganda 5 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 10 5 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 60 50 0 0 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 85 45 0 5 35
American Sign Language 45 30 0 5 15
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 40 20 0 0 25
Other languages 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 635 370 0 255 5
English and French 235 40 0 195 0
English and non-official language 355 315 0 35 5
French and non-official language 25 10 0 20 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 10 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011031.

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