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Language codes. ISO 639-3. –. Glottolog. None. IETF. fr-CA. Canadian French ( French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãsɛ kanadzjɛ̃]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties, the most prominent of which is Québécois (Quebec French).
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's second-largest country by total area, with the world's longest coastline.
French language in Canada. This article is about the historical and sociological aspects of the French language in Canada. For the variety of the French language in Canada, see Canadian French. French language distribution in Canada. French is the mother tongue of approximately 7.2 million Canadians (22.8 percent of the Canadian population ...
There are many varieties of French spoken by francophone Canadians, for example Quebec French, Acadian French, Métis French, and Newfoundland French. The French spoken in Ontario, the Canadian West, and New England can trace their roots back to Quebec French because of Quebec's diaspora.
French is the second-most common language in Canada, after English, and both are official languages at the federal level. It is the first language of 9.5 million people or 29% and the second language for 2.07 million or 6% of the entire population of Canada.
France was in 2010 Canada's 11th largest destination for exports and its fourth largest in Europe. Also, Canada and France are important to each other as entry points to their respective continental free markets (North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union).
It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government. Maxime, a speaker of Québecois French, recorded in Slovenia. Canadian French is a common umbrella term to describe all varieties of French used in Canada, including Quebec French.
The colony of New France was claimed in 1534 with permanent settlements beginning in 1608. France ceded nearly all its North American possessions to the Great Britain in 1763 at the Treaty of Paris after the Seven Years' War. The now British Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada in 1791.
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% 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.
In most of Canada, either English or French is predominant. Only in the intermittent "belt" stretching between northern Ontario and northern New Brunswick, and in a few other isolated pockets, do the two languages mix on a regular basis. English. English and French (Bilingual Belt) French.