What percentage of people in Montreal speak French?
66.5% of people in Montreal speak French as their first language, in comparison to 80.1% of Quebec’s total population, and 22.3% of the population of Canada. Only 13.2% of people in Montreal speak English as a first language, in comparison to 8.6% of Quebec’s total population, and 58.4% of the population of Canada. Montreal is the largest French-speaking city in North America, and when counting only the number of native French speakers, it is the second largest French-speaking city in the world after Paris. When including second-language speakers, it is the third after Paris and Kinshasa. This means that it is a very important francophone culture center. Here are some more specific statistics from http://spacingmontreal.ca/?p=331 Percentage of population by mother tongue, Montreal Island, 2006 French: 49.3% English: 16.3% Other: 33.5% Percentage of population by language spoken at home, Montreal Island, 2006 French: 53.2% English: 23.2% Other: 19% Percentage of population by mother ton
