Tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (158), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-Official Languages Spoken (5), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2011 National Household Survey

• Knowledge of official languages (5): Total - Knowledge of official languages
• Number of non-official languages spoken (5): Total - Number of non-official languages spoken
• Age groups (10): Total - Age groups
• Sex (3): Total - Sex

This table details detailed mother tongue , immigrant status and period of immigration , knowledge of official languages , number of non-official languages spoken , age groups and sex for the population in private households in Newfoundland and Labrador / Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Global non-response rate (GNR)^{Footnote 1} = 31.4 %

Detailed mother tongue (158)	Immigrant status and period of immigration (11)
	Total - Immigrant status and period of immigration	Non-immigrants^Footnote 2	Immigrants^Footnote 3	Before 1971	1971 to 1980	1981 to 1990	1991 to 2000	2001 to 2011^Footnote 4	2001 to 2005	2006 to 2011	Non-permanent residents^Footnote 5
Total - Detailed mother tongue	507,270	496,400	9,160	2,185	1,515	1,095	1,300	3,065	845	2,220	1,705
Single responses	506,595	496,005	8,930	2,140	1,510	1,095	1,285	2,905	795	2,105	1,665
English	497,055	491,000	5,310	1,715	1,225	670	510	1,195	460	735	740
French	1,770	1,660	95	30	0	30	0	10	0	10	0
Non-official languages	7,770	3,345	3,520	400	280	395	750	1,695	330	1,360	905
Aboriginal languages	2,705	2,700	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	435	70	280	55	65	45	30	95	25	70	80
Italian	50	20	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Portuguese	85	0	85	35	40	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romanian	30	0	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spanish	270	50	140	0	0	25	0	95	20	70	80
Catalan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	550	70	385	135	60	30	70	90	25	65	100
Dutch	60	15	50	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flemish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
German	290	45	230	95	50	20	25	35	0	20	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	105	10	70	10	0	0	15	40	0	30	0
Danish	55	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Icelandic	25	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	15	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swedish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	80	0	30	0	0	0	0	10	0	10	50
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	350	70	265	30	0	55	85	70	40	35	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	30	0	20	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	0
Czech	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	105	40	70	0	0	55	0	0	0	0	0
Russian	140	0	115	0	0	0	50	70	40	30	0
Serbian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovak	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	50	0	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	35	0	35	0	0	0	0	20	0	20	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	60	0	50	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Estonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	45	0	40	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	465	30	335	0	0	0	0	315	80	235	100
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	65	0	50	0	0	0	0	50	0	50	0
Oromo	65	0	50	0	0	0	0	50	0	50	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	385	0	275	0	0	0	0	255	75	185	100
Amharic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arabic	340	0	235	0	0	0	0	235	75	160	95
Hebrew	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	35	0	35	0	0	0	0	25	0	25	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	1,015	55	790	45	20	50	145	530	40	490	170
Indo-Aryan languages	885	50	660	40	20	40	75	490	30	460	170
Bengali	310	0	145	0	0	0	45	80	0	80	150
Gujarati	30	0	30	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	55	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	35	0	20	0	15	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	50	0	45	0	0	0	0	25	0	25	0
Urdu	185	0	185	0	0	0	0	155	10	145	0
Nepali	200	0	200	0	0	0	0	200	0	200	0
Iranian languages	135	0	130	0	0	0	80	45	0	35	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	130	0	130	0	0	0	75	45	0	35	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	250	0	215	0	35	20	100	65	0	50	25
Kannada	35	0	30	0	0	0	30	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	50	0	40	0	0	0	0	30	0	20	0
Tamil	105	0	90	0	0	0	30	25	0	30	0
Telugu	60	0	55	0	0	0	35	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	30	0	25	0	0	0	0	25	25	0	0
Korean	65	0	40	0	0	0	25	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	1,065	165	660	55	55	100	145	300	65	235	240
Chinese languages	1,065	160	665	60	60	100	145	300	65	230	240
Cantonese	305	115	175	0	30	50	65	10	0	10	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	140	0	105	0	0	0	0	70	0	65	35
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	45	0	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	575	45	335	35	25	50	30	190	50	140	190
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	70	0	60	0	0	0	30	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	45	0	35	0	0	0	25	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	230	0	130	15	0	20	0	75	0	75	85
Bisayan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	205	0	125	15	0	20	0	75	0	75	85
Bikol	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	110	0	85	0	0	0	25	50	0	50	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	70	0	40	0	0	0	0	45	0	40	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swahili	35	0	30	0	0	0	0	30	0	30	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	30	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	110	0	70	0	0	0	0	20	0	10	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	110	95	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	20	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	90	85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	670	400	230	45	0	0	15	160	45	115	40
English and French	190	185	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
English and non-official language	445	210	200	35	0	0	0	135	35	105	40
French and non-official language	35	10	25	0	0	0	0	20	0	10	0
English, French and non-official language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

For the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) estimates, the global non-response rate (GNR) is used as an indicator of data quality. This indicator combines complete non-response (household) and partial non-response (question) into a single rate. The value of the GNR is presented to users. A smaller GNR indicates a lower risk of non-response bias and as a result, lower risk of inaccuracy. The threshold used for estimates' suppression is a GNR of 50% or more. For more information, please refer to the National Household Survey User Guide, 2011.

Footnote 2

Non-immigrant refers to a person who is a Canadian citizen by birth.

Footnote 3

Immigrant refers to a person who is or has ever been a landed immigrant/permanent resident. This person has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Some immigrants have resided in Canada for a number of years, while others have arrived recently. Some immigrants are Canadian citizens, while others are not. Most immigrants are born outside Canada, but a small number are born in Canada. In the 2011 National Household Survey, 'Immigrants' includes immigrants who landed in Canada prior to May 10, 2011.

Footnote 4

Includes immigrants who landed in Canada prior to May 10, 2011.

Footnote 5

Non-permanent resident refers to a person from another country who has a work or study permit, or who is a refugee claimant, and any non-Canadian-born family member living in Canada with them.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-010-X2011033.