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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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 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 St. John's East / St. John's-Est
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 99,405 91,205 25 8,000 175
Single responses 99,000 90,975 25 7,830 170
English 95,530 88,320 5 7,195 15
French 480 50 25 405 0
Non-official languages 2,995 2,605 0 230 155
Aboriginal languages 30 30 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 20 20 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 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 15 15 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 15 10 0 0 0
Inuktitut 10 10 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 300 230 0 55 15
Italian 40 30 0 10 0
Portuguese 30 20 0 10 0
Romanian 20 15 0 10 0
Spanish 210 165 0 30 15
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 235 195 0 45 0
Dutch 30 30 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 130 100 0 25 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 60 55 0 5 0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0
Icelandic 25 20 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 5 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 245 215 0 25 10
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 5 5
Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Czech 20 15 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 5
Polish 55 45 0 5 0
Russian 85 70 0 5 5
Serbian 5 5 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 10 10 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 10 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 5 0
Latvian 5 5 0 5 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 25 20 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 5
Albanian 65 55 0 0 10
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 25 20 0 5 0
Estonian 5 5 0 5 0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0
Hungarian 10 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 5 5 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 5 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 245 215 0 15 10
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 0 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages 235 205 0 20 10
Amharic 10 10 0 5 0
Arabic 205 175 0 20 10
Hebrew 5 10 0 0 0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 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 580 525 0 15 35
Indo-Aryan languages 465 435 0 10 25
Bengali 145 140 0 0 5
Gujarati 25 25 0 0 0
Hindi 65 70 0 0 0
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0
Marathi 20 20 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 40 35 0 0 5
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0 0
Urdu 100 95 0 5 5
Nepali 35 25 0 5 10
Iranian languages 105 90 0 5 10
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 90 75 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 120 110 0 0 0
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 30 30 0 0 5
Tamil 45 45 0 0 0
Telugu 30 25 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0 0
Korean 50 40 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 700 645 0 20 40
Chinese languages 700 640 0 20 40
Cantonese 60 50 0 5 5
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 5 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 115 105 0 5 5
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 25 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 495 460 0 10 30
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Tai languages 15 10 0 5 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 15 15 0 5 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 15 15 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 110 110 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0
Malay 25 20 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 85 85 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 80 55 0 20 10
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages 60 35 5 20 10
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 25 10 0 5 5
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Creoles 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 40 25 0 0 20
American Sign Language 20 20 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 10 0 0 15
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 405 235 0 170 5
English and French 145 20 0 120 0
English and non-official language 235 205 0 30 5
French and non-official language 15 0 0 10 0
English, French and non-official language 20 5 0 10 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011034.

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