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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Other Languages Spoken Regularly at Home (9) 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 , detailed language spoken most often at home , other languages spoken regularly at home and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Saint John
Detailed mother tongue (232) Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Total - Other language spoken regularly at home None English French Non-official language English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed mother tongue 126,280 120,225 2,000 2,870 1,100 15 20 65 0
Single responses 125,420 119,625 1,955 2,720 1,045 10 20 50 0
English 116,035 114,260 90 1,435 240 0 0 15 0
French 5,520 3,240 985 1,265 15 0 0 5 0
Non-official languages 3,865 2,120 885 20 790 10 15 30 0
Aboriginal languages 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Romance languages 535 275 90 5 155 0 0 15 0
Italian 100 65 0 0 30 0 0 5 0
Portuguese 80 45 5 0 20 0 0 5 0
Romanian 50 20 5 0 20 0 0 0 0
Spanish 310 155 70 0 80 0 0 5 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 430 265 50 5 105 0 0 5 0
Dutch 160 100 20 0 30 0 0 5 0
Flemish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
German 210 120 25 0 60 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scandinavian languages 40 30 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Danish 20 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gaelic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 225 110 30 0 75 5 5 5 0
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 10 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
Czech 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 60 25 10 0 20 5 0 5 0
Russian 80 40 10 0 20 5 5 0 0
Serbian 15 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slovenian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 25 20 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic languages 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 75 45 5 5 25 0 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Albanian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finno-Ugric languages 50 30 0 0 20 0 0 0 0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Hungarian 40 30 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 40 30 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 20 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 405 195 150 5 60 0 0 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 400 190 150 5 55 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 395 190 150 5 50 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 475 245 130 0 100 0 0 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 330 160 95 0 70 0 0 0 0
Bengali 45 15 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 15 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hindi 90 45 25 0 20 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 0 20 0 10 0 0 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 85 45 20 0 20 0 0 0 0
Nepali 55 45 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 150 80 40 0 25 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pashto 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 135 80 35 0 20 0 0 5 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 50 25 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Kannada 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Korean 595 365 185 5 40 0 0 5 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 600 330 155 0 110 0 5 0 0
Chinese languages 600 330 155 0 110 0 5 0 0
Cantonese 45 20 5 0 15 0 0 0 0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 120 55 40 0 25 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 435 250 105 0 70 0 5 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 10 10 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 55 30 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 50 30 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages 150 70 50 0 30 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 125 60 35 0 25 0 0 0 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 50 20 5 0 20 0 0 5 0
Akan (Twi) 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages 25 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
African languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Creoles 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Non-verbal languages 40 35 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Other languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 860 595 45 155 50 5 0 10 0
English and French 580 410 15 145 0 0 0 5 0
English and non-official language 255 175 25 0 40 5 0 5 0
French and non-official language 15 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0
English, French and non-official language 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011041.

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