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Quebec's population accounts for 23.9% of the Canadian population, and Quebec's francophones account for about 90% of Canada's French-speaking population. English-speaking Quebecers are a large population in the Greater Montreal Area, where they have built a well-established network of educational, social, economic, and cultural institutions.
According to the 2016 census, 49.1% of people living in Quebec say they can conduct a conversation in English (English as mother tongue or as a second language). As for French-English bilingualism, 44.5% of people in Quebec state that they are bilingual, that is to say, able to conduct a conversation in both French and English. [74]
Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government.
A Quebec French stop sign A Québécois French speaker, recorded in Slovenia. Quebec is the only province whose sole official language is French. Today, 71.2 percent of Québécois people are first language francophones. [16] About 95 percent of Quebecers speak French. [3]
This is a list of anglophone communities in the Canadian province of Quebec. Municipalities with a high percentage of English -speakers in Quebec are listed. The provincial average of Quebecers whose mother tongue is English is 7.6%, with a total of 639,365 people in Quebec who identify English as their mother tongue in 2021.
Canadian French (French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãˈsɛ kanaˈd͡zjɛ̃]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties, the most prominent of which is Québécois (Quebec French).
While English is not the preferred language in Quebec, 36.1% of Québécois can speak English. [16] Nationally, Francophones are five times more likely to speak English than Anglophones are to speak French – 44% and 9% respectively. [17] Only 3.2% of Canada's English-speaking population resides in Quebec—mostly in Montreal. [nb 5]
Quebec's closest international partner is the United States, with which it shares a long and positive history. Products of American culture like songs, movies, fashion and food strongly affect Québécois culture. Quebec has a historied relationship with France, as Quebec was a part of the French Empire and both regions share a language.