Languages spoken in Montreal Quiz by segacs

Can you name the Languages spoken in Montreal?

created by segacs

Enter a language in the box below
Correctly named languages will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: 2011 Canada census for Montreal CMA
Top 20 mother tongues. Official language totals count both single and multiple-language respondents; non-official language totals are single-language only. Updated June 2013 to use 2011 census data.
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Rank	Language	Number of speakers
1		2,492,365
2		513,450
3		126,865
4		111,070
5		110,125
6		60,275
7		47,665
8		38,860
9		29,225
10		28,975

Rank	Language	Number of speakers
11		24,610
12		22,480
13		17,895
14		14,800
15		13,530
16		13,280
17		13,145
18		11,025
19		10,240
20		10,155
21	10,155
22	10,155
23	10,155
24	10,155
25	10,155
26	10,155
27	10,155
28	10,155

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Languages spoken in Montreal Quiz

by segacs

Created Aug 18, 2010 in Language
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	yony:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 14:41 GMT		0 points
	First off, I'm flattered you followed up with a similar quiz. Also, I know the problem is the source, but I find it VERY hard to believe that only 60k out of the 2.4m French speakers. The data is pretty bad for Toronto, but somehow there are considerably less bilinguals in Montreal, which I find hard to believe.

	segacs:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 20:17 GMT		3 points
	Thanks for the idea. All you. And I think the data is fine, as it's asking about mother tongue. While most Montrealers are bilingual in terms of languages spoken, very few are perfectly bilingual as a mother tongue to the point where they can't identify which language they learned first. Most people learn one or the other first in childhood, and then pick up the other language in school or later on. So yeah, I think the numbers are fairly accurate.

	segacs:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 20:47 GMT		2 points
	Other game notes: Like Yony did with the Toronto quiz, I also combined the answers for Mandarin, Cantonese, and Chinese (other) into one, because of the way they were distributed on the original source. I've added some bonus answers for languages that were close to being in the top 20. All figures are from 2006 census data.

	hondo:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 22:09 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz, I was hoping for a Montreal version. Could you please accept Haitian for creole? It has to be the dominant creole in mtl and most people refer to the language as simply haitian. Again, great quiz.

	yippeeyappee:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 08:05 GMT		3 points
	Wow - I really thought I'd see Hebrew or Yiddish!

	segacs:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 12:20 GMT		1 point
	@Hondo, I've added Haitian as an acceptable answer for Creoles.

	cthulhu:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 16:45 GMT		4 points
	18 answers plus 2 bonuses equals 20/20, so... perfect? I am surprised to see specific ethnic Indian languages on here without the general Hindi.

	JayHankEdLyon:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 01:47 GMT		1 point
	Very surprised 'Quebecois' isn't acceptable for French.

	segacs:	Aug 22nd, 2010 at 03:48 GMT		3 points
	@Jay, that would be inaccurate, since not everyone who has French as a mother tongue is necessarily Quebecois. There are French people living in Quebec who hail from France or from other places in the world, and the census data doesn't make a distinction.

	segacs:	Jun 11th, 2013 at 14:37 GMT		1 point
	Just a quick note to say that I updated the game to use 2011 census data. Those of you who followed the battle between Statistics Canada and the Conservative government over the long form census will no doubt know of some of the data sampling and statistical validity issues involved with making the long-form census optional. Nonetheless, this is the data we have, so this is the data we use.