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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2011 Census

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This table details detailed mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Fredericton, 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 55,555 42,380 190 12,745 235
Single responses 54,815 42,100 190 12,300 230
English 47,130 38,885 0 8,235 15
French 3,850 100 175 3,575 0
Non-official languages 3,840 3,120 10 490 220
Aboriginal languages 30 30 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 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 15 15 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 15 10 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 395 295 5 85 15
Italian 50 40 0 10 0
Portuguese 40 30 0 15 5
Romanian 80 55 0 20 5
Spanish 215 165 0 40 5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 345 255 0 85 0
Dutch 95 75 0 20 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 210 150 0 55 5
Yiddish 0 0 0 5 0
Scandinavian languages 25 25 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 5 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 5 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 375 295 0 55 20
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 25 0 5 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 5 0
Croatian 30 25 0 0 5
Czech 15 10 0 5 0
Macedonian 5 5 0 5 0
Polish 50 40 0 15 5
Russian 130 110 0 10 10
Serbian 65 55 0 5 5
Serbo-Croatian 25 15 0 5 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 15 0 10 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 10 10 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 20 10 0 10 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 55 45 0 10 0
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 15 10 0 5 0
Hungarian 30 20 0 5 0
Turkic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 20 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 435 305 5 100 35
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 435 300 5 95 30
Amharic 20 15 0 0 0
Arabic 405 275 5 95 25
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 5 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 560 505 0 20 30
Indo-Aryan languages 345 310 0 10 25
Bengali 95 95 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 90 80 0 5 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0 0
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0 0
Urdu 60 55 0 0 5
Nepali 40 25 0 0 20
Iranian languages 210 195 0 15 5
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 205 190 0 10 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 55 50 0 5 0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 5 10 0 0 0
Tamil 30 25 0 5 0
Telugu 15 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Japanese 35 30 0 5 0
Korean 495 440 0 20 40
Sino-Tibetan languages 690 590 0 35 65
Chinese languages 695 590 0 35 70
Cantonese 70 55 0 5 10
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 170 145 0 10 20
Shanghainese 5 5 0 0 0
Taiwanese 5 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 440 380 0 25 40
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 25 25 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 40 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 40 40 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 80 80 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 5 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malay 20 25 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 55 55 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 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 115 75 5 40 0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 85 55 5 25 5
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 20 5 5 5 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 15 0 0 10 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 35 25 5 10 0
Ganda 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Creoles 0 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 10 5 0 0 5
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 5
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 735 285 0 445 5
English and French 420 40 0 380 0
English and non-official language 290 240 0 45 5
French and non-official language 15 5 5 10 0
English, French and non-official language 15 0 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011035.

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