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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 Saint John, 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 68,810 59,410 80 9,095 225
Single responses 68,305 59,175 85 8,830 220
English 62,330 56,560 0 5,760 5
French 3,280 350 75 2,860 0
Non-official languages 2,695 2,260 5 210 215
Aboriginal languages 10 10 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 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 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 0 0 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 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 380 280 0 65 35
Italian 50 35 0 10 0
Portuguese 60 45 0 10 10
Romanian 45 30 0 10 5
Spanish 225 165 0 35 20
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 165 145 0 25 0
Dutch 60 50 0 5 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 90 75 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 10 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 140 120 0 20 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Czech 0 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 35 30 0 10 5
Russian 55 50 0 10 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 20 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 55 45 0 10 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 20 0 5 0
Estonian 0 5 0 0 0
Finnish 0 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages 35 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 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 375 335 5 25 15
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 370 330 5 30 10
Amharic 5 5 5 0 0
Arabic 360 320 0 25 15
Hebrew 5 0 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 420 355 0 20 45
Indo-Aryan languages 300 255 0 15 35
Bengali 30 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 90 70 0 10 10
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 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 0 10
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 5
Pashto 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 95 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 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 250 215 0 20 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 535 435 5 15 80
Chinese languages 535 430 0 15 85
Cantonese 35 30 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 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. 395 315 0 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 0 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 0 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 40 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 45 35 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 125 125 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 10 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 10 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 30 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 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 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Creoles 10 15 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 30 15 0 0 20
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 15 0 0 10
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 505 240 0 260 0
English and French 310 70 0 235 0
English and non-official language 180 165 0 15 0
French and non-official language 10 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0

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

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