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Linguistic Vitality
Use of French at Home a Continuing Challenge...In 2001, 612,985 people living outside Quebec said that they spoke French at home and 675,925 said so in 1971. Thanks to a new question Statistics Canada included in the 2001 Census, we now know that 336,500 persons regularly use French at home, even though it isn’t their most common language. Of this number, 30,000 speak only French and another non-official language at home.
... But Knowledge of the Language More and More WidespreadThe number of French speakers (unilingual or who also speak English) almost doubled between 1951 and 2001. More than 2,439,040 people in Canada, excluding Quebec, are now said to speak French. This represents 10.8% of the population. Since 1988, the number of persons speaking French increased by half a million. Including Quebec, some 9 million people speak French in Canada, a tribute to the vitality of the language.
Index | History | Geography | Demographic Vitality | Linguistic Vitality | Economic Vitality | Francophone Diversity | Community Vitality | Sources | Annex |
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