Use of French Languages of Canada

in 2011, on 7.1 million canadians spoke french @ home, rise of 4.2%, although proportion of people in canada spoke french @ home fell 21.7% 21.5% . of these, 6.1 million or 85% resided in quebec. outside quebec, largest french-speaking populations found in new brunswick (which home 3.1% of canada s francophones) , ontario (4.2%, residing in eastern , northeastern parts of province , in toronto , ottawa). overall, 22% of people in canada declare french mother language, while 1 in 3 canadians speak french , 70% unilingual anglophones. smaller indigenous french-speaking communities exist in other provinces. example, vestigial community exists on newfoundland s port au port peninsula; remnant of french shore along island s west coast.

the percentage of population speak french both mother tongue , home language has decreased on past 3 decades. whereas number of speak english @ home higher number of people mother tongue english, opposite true francophones. there fewer people speak french @ home, learned french after birth.

ethnic diversity growing in french canada still lags behind english-speaking parts of country. in 2006, 91.5% of quebecers considered of either french or canadian origin. result of growth in immigration, since 1970s, countries in french used language, 3.4% of quebecers indicated of haitian, belgian, swiss, lebanese or moroccan origin. other groups of non-francophone immigrants (irish catholics, italian, portuguese, etc.) have assimilated french on generations. irish, started arriving in large numbers in quebec in 1830s, first such group, explains why has been possible quebec have had 5 premiers of irish ethnic origin: john jones ross (1884–87), edmund james flynn (1896–97), daniel johnson sr. (1966–68), pierre-marc johnson (1985), , daniel johnson jr. (1994).

in 1991, due linguistic assimilation of francophones outside quebec, on 1 million canadians claimed english mother tongue of french ethnic origin (1991 census).

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