Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Saint John
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Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 72,645 62,570 110 9,325 645
Single responses 71,975 62,260 100 8,970 640
Official languages 68,530 59,750 70 8,690 15
English 65,460 59,450 0 6,000 15
French 3,070 305 70 2,700 5
Non-official languages 3,445 2,505 35 280 625
Aboriginal languages 0 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 5 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 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
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 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
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 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
Gitxsan (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
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 3,440 2,505 30 280 625
Afro-Asiatic languages 770 315 10 45 400
Berber languages 0 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 750 295 10 45 400
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 700 250 10 40 400
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 45 40 0 5 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
Austro-Asiatic languages 85 80 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 85 75 0 5 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 185 175 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 0 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 160 155 0 5 5
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 5 10 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 50 0 0 0
Kannada 10 5 0 5 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0
Tamil 10 10 0 0 0
Telugu 25 20 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 1,180 970 0 145 65
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 205 175 0 20 5
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 205 175 0 25 5
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 10 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 15 10 0 0 0
Russian 130 110 0 20 5
Serbian 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 35 25 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 5 0 5 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 135 115 0 20 0
Afrikaans 5 0 0 0 0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0
Dutch 45 40 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 70 65 0 10 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 50 45 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 410 350 0 20 35
Indo-Aryan languages 250 225 0 10 15
Bengali 60 55 0 0 5
Gujarati 15 15 0 0 0
Hindi 45 40 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 5 0
Nepali 35 25 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 20 15 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 55 55 0 0 5
Iranian languages 155 120 0 10 25
Kurdish 15 5 0 0 15
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 135 110 0 10 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 370 275 0 75 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 45 40 0 10 0
Portuguese 60 45 0 10 5
Romanian 50 30 0 15 0
Spanish 220 160 0 45 15
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 240 200 0 30 15
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 85 40 25 15 5
Akan (Twi) 15 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 20 0 15 5 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 10 5 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 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 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 745 600 0 25 125
Chinese languages 750 595 0 20 125
Cantonese 80 70 0 5 10
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 575 460 5 15 100
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 15 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 50 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 10 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 15 0 5 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 10 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 25 25 0 0 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 10 0 0 0
Hungarian 15 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 670 305 0 355 5
English and French 410 100 0 310 0
English and non-official language 240 210 0 30 5
French and non-official language 10 5 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 5 0 0 10 0

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Footnote(s)

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n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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