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While English is not the preferred language in Quebec, 36.1% of the Québécois can speak English. [165] Nationally, Francophones are five times more likely to speak English than Anglophones are to speak French – 44% and 9% respectively. [166] Only 3.2% of Canada's English-speaking population resides in Quebec—mostly in Montreal. [nb 1]
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]
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [66] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [67] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
As of 2024, there are 57 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English is an official language. Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level. Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.
North American English encompasses the English language as spoken in both the United States and Canada. Because of their related histories and cultures, [ 2 ] plus the similarities between the pronunciations (accents), vocabulary, and grammar of U.S. English and Canadian English , linguists often group the two together.
English-speaking Montrealers have, however, established ethnic groups that retain certain lexical features: Irish, Jewish, Italian, and Greek communities that all speak discernible varieties of English. Isolated fishing villages on the Basse-Côte-Nord of Quebec speak Newfoundland English, and many Gaspesian English-speakers use Maritime English.
Standard Canadian English is the largely homogeneous variety of Canadian English that is spoken particularly across Ontario and Western Canada, as well as throughout Canada among urban middle-class speakers from English-speaking families, [1] excluding the regional dialects of Atlantic Canadian English.
Official bilingualism" (French: bilinguisme officiel) is the term used in Canada to collectively describe the policies, constitutional provisions, and laws that ensure legal equality of English and French in the Parliament and courts of Canada, protect the linguistic rights of English- and French-speaking minorities in different provinces, and ...