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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 (2013 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 East / St. John's-Est
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 81,075 73,950 25 6,920 180
Single responses 80,685 73,720 30 6,760 175
English 77,205 71,040 0 6,150 10
French 445 45 25 375 0
Non-official languages 3,035 2,630 0 235 160
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 15 20 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 15 15 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 15 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 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 310 240 0 55 20
Italian 40 30 0 10 0
Portuguese 30 25 0 10 0
Romanian 20 15 0 10 5
Spanish 215 165 0 30 20
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 230 180 0 45 0
Dutch 30 25 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 120 85 0 35 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 65 60 0 5 0
Danish 5 10 0 0 0
Icelandic 25 25 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 20 0 5 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 5 0
Gaelic languages 5 0 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 255 215 0 25 15
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 20 0 5 0
Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Czech 15 15 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 50 45 0 5 0
Russian 95 75 0 10 10
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 10 5 0 5 0
Slovenian 0 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 20 0 5 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 65 55 0 0 10
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 20 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 10 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages 30 20 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 270 230 0 20 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 10 15 0 5 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 260 220 0 20 15
Amharic 15 10 0 0 0
Arabic 230 195 0 20 15
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 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 585 535 5 20 35
Indo-Aryan languages 475 440 0 15 25
Bengali 145 140 0 0 5
Gujarati 20 20 0 0 0
Hindi 70 65 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 15 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 25 30 0 0 0
Urdu 110 95 0 5 0
Nepali 40 30 0 5 10
Iranian languages 105 90 0 10 10
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 75 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 115 115 0 0 5
Kannada 10 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 35 30 0 0 0
Tamil 40 40 0 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Korean 50 40 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 725 665 0 20 45
Chinese languages 715 655 0 20 40
Cantonese 60 45 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 110 0 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 20 20 0 5 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 510 470 0 5 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 15 0 5 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 15 10 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 20 15 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 20 10 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 105 105 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 80 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 80 60 5 20 10
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 65 40 0 20 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 5 0 5 0
Swahili 30 10 0 5 5
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 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 25 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 30 15 0 5 10
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0 5
Other languages 5 5 0 5 0
Multiple responses 395 230 0 160 5
English and French 130 20 0 110 0
English and non-official language 230 200 0 30 0
French and non-official language 20 0 0 15 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-XCB2011055.

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