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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
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 75,290 65,255 90 9,720 225
Single responses 74,770 65,005 90 9,445 225
English 68,540 62,340 0 6,190 5
French 3,495 370 80 3,045 0
Non-official languages 2,730 2,290 10 215 215
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 0 5 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 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 385 280 0 65 35
Italian 50 40 0 10 5
Portuguese 60 40 0 10 10
Romanian 45 30 0 10 5
Spanish 230 170 0 35 25
Catalan 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 185 160 0 25 0
Dutch 70 60 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 100 80 0 15 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 145 120 0 20 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Czech 5 5 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 40 30 0 10 0
Russian 55 45 0 5 0
Serbian 15 10 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 55 45 0 5 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 25 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0
Finnish 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 20 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 5 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 20 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 375 335 5 30 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 375 325 5 30 15
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0
Arabic 365 320 0 30 15
Hebrew 0 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 415 355 0 20 45
Indo-Aryan languages 300 255 0 15 30
Bengali 25 30 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 0
Hindi 85 70 0 10 5
Konkani 0 5 0 0 0
Marathi 10 10 0 5 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 20 0 5 0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 75 70 0 0 5
Nepali 55 30 0 0 20
Iranian languages 115 100 0 0 10
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 105 100 0 0 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 30 30 0 0 0
Kannada 10 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 540 435 0 15 80
Chinese languages 535 435 5 15 85
Cantonese 35 30 0 0 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 105 90 0 5 15
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 5 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 395 315 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 40 40 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 45 40 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 130 125 0 5 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 10 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 105 110 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 10 0 5 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 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. 10 5 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creoles 15 15 0 5 0
Non-verbal languages 30 10 0 0 15
American Sign Language 10 0 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 10
Other languages 0 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 525 250 0 270 0
English and French 320 75 0 245 0
English and non-official language 185 175 0 15 0
French and non-official language 10 5 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 10 0 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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