Francophone_Canadians

Francophone Canadians

Francophone Canadians

French-speaking Canadians


Francophone Canadians (or French-speaking Canadians; French: Les Canadiens francophones) are citizens of Canada who speak French. In 2011, 9,809,155 people in Canada, or 30.1%[1] of the population, were Francophone, including 7,274,090 people, or 22% of the population, who declared that they had French as their mother tongue.[2]

Distribution

Map of Canada with English speakers and French speakers at a percentage
Approximately 98 percent of Canadians can speak either or both English and French:[3]
  English – 57%
  English and French – 16% (Bilingual belts)
  French – 21%
  Sparsely populated area (< 0.4 persons per km2)

Six million French-speaking Canadians reside in Quebec, where they constitute the main linguistic group, and another one million reside in other Canadian regions. The largest portion of Francophones outside Quebec live in Ontario, followed by New Brunswick, but they can be found in all provinces and territories.[4] The presence of French in Canada comes mainly from French colonization in America that occurred in the 16th to 18th centuries.

Francophones in Canada are not all of French Canadian or French descent, particularly in the English-speaking provinces of Ontario and Western Canada. A few Canadians of French Canadian or French origin are also not Francophone.

Unlike Francophones in Quebec, who generally identify simply as Québécois, Francophones outside Quebec generally identify as Francophone Canadians (e.g. Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Manitobans, etc.), the exception being Acadians, who constitute their own cultural group and live in Acadia, in the Maritime provinces. New Brunswick is Canada's only officially-bilingual province.[5] All three territories (the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut) include French among their official languages.[6][7][8]

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References

  1. All statistics on the number of Francophones in this article include speakers of mother tongue French, and also those who have, along with French, another mother tongue.
  2. "2006 Census: The Evolving Linguistic Portrait, 2006 Census: Highlights". Statistics Canada, Dated 2006. Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  3. Toolkit, Web Experience (2016-12-28). "The Legislative Assembly of Nunavut adopts the Official Languages Act and the Inuit Language Protection Act". www.clo-ocol.gc.ca. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  4. Toolkit, Web Experience (2016-12-20). "Yukon adopts its Languages Act". www.clo-ocol.gc.ca. Retrieved 2021-12-27.

This article has been partially or totally translated from the French-language article Canadiens francophones.

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