Let’s learn the French language facts and figures in this blog post. Read to learn more.
French language facts and figures
If you walk down a street in any city in Canada, you’ll meet people from many different cultures. This is because the country has a population of immigrants from all over the world.
Many Canadians speak English as their first language (native English speakers). However, there are some parts of the country where most residents speak a local native language.
The French-speaking community is particularly strong in eastern provinces such as Quebec, New Brunswick, and Manitoba. There are many interesting facts about French spoken in Canada that most people don’t know.
French is the most-spoken language in Canada
If you walk down a street in any city in Canada, you’ll meet people from many different cultures. This is because the country has a population of immigrants from all over the world.
Many Canadians speak English as their first language (native English speakers). However, there are some parts of the country where most residents speak a local native language.
The French-speaking community is particularly strong in eastern provinces such as Quebec, New Brunswick and Manitoba. There are many interesting facts about French spoken in Canada that most people don’t know.
Let us look at 15 things you didn’t know about French spoken in Canada.
The population of Quebec is mostly bilingual
About 15 percent of Canadians speak French as their first language. There are more than 3 million speakers of French in Canada.
By 2014, there were more teenagers with a proficiency level in English than in French. The official language at various federal government offices in English only.
But many government websites are available in both English and French. Statistics show that 7 percent of Canadians have poor fluency in both English and French.
Canadian Sign Language (CSL) is equally popular among the deaf population as spoken languages are among others. In Quebec, 60 percent of people who use CSL speak French at home as their main language.
However, 20 percent use it as a second language, and 20 percent do not know it. There are more than 2 million speakers of Chinese dialects natively speaking Chinese in Canada too.
More than half live in the province of Ontario alone, where large Chinese Canadian communities are located, especially in Toronto and Vancouver.
Other provinces with large populations include Alberta and British Columbia, with smaller percentages coming from other parts of the country like New Brunswick, Manitoba and Newfoundland & Labrador, respectively.
Statistics also show that more than 3 million Canadians know how to speak a little bit of Spanish or Mexican Spanish/Spanish Apache, which is another interesting fact about Canadian languages! Concluding Thoughts