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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, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 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 Saint John
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 126,280 107,140 160 18,695 275
Single responses 125,420 106,795 160 18,195 275
English 116,035 103,065 0 12,955 10
French 5,520 490 150 4,885 0
Non-official languages 3,865 3,240 5 355 260
Aboriginal languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 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. 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 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 5 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. 0 5 0 0 0
Romance languages 540 400 0 95 45
Italian 105 70 0 20 5
Portuguese 80 60 0 10 10
Romanian 50 30 0 15 5
Spanish 310 230 0 50 25
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 430 355 0 70 0
Dutch 155 130 0 25 5
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 5 0
German 210 170 0 40 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 35 0 5 0
Danish 15 15 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 225 185 0 35 5
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 10 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 15 0 0 0
Czech 10 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 60 45 0 15 0
Russian 80 60 0 10 5
Serbian 15 15 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 5 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 25 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 75 65 0 10 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 55 45 0 10 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 45 35 0 5 0
Turkic languages 40 35 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 410 355 5 35 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 400 345 5 40 10
Amharic 5 5 5 0 0
Arabic 390 340 0 40 10
Hebrew 0 5 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 475 405 0 25 45
Indo-Aryan languages 325 270 0 20 35
Bengali 40 40 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 90 75 0 10 10
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 80 80 0 0 5
Nepali 55 35 0 0 25
Iranian languages 150 130 0 5 10
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 5
Pashto 5 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 140 125 0 5 10
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 45 0 5 0
Kannada 5 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 20 20 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0 0
Telugu 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 15 0 0 0
Korean 595 525 0 40 35
Sino-Tibetan languages 600 490 5 20 85
Chinese languages 600 495 5 15 90
Cantonese 45 35 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 125 100 0 5 20
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 435 355 5 15 65
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 10 15 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 45 0 5 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 45 0 5 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 155 150 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 130 125 0 0 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 55 45 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 5 0
Bantu languages 20 15 0 5 0
Lingala 5 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Creoles 15 10 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 40 15 0 0 20
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 15 0 0 10
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 860 350 0 505 0
English and French 580 115 5 460 0
English and non-official language 250 230 0 20 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 15 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011031.

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