Languages Spoken in Toronto Quiz

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Languages Spoken in Toronto Quiz

by yony

Created May 28, 2010 in Language
Featured Aug 17, 2010
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	MrChewypoo:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 17:18 GMT	28 points
	Interesting French being number 11 and it's one of Canada's two official languages. And if you live in Toronto, you can probably name each area these languages are predominantly spoken (Markham, Mississiauga, Woodbridge...)

	Bretzky:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 17:18 GMT	8 points
	I've never understood English speakers insisting that we call it Farsi. We don't call French "français" or Spanish "espagnol," so why call Persian "farsi"? Even native Persian speakers prefer that we call it Persian. Farsi is the name of the language in Persian, not in English.

	hondo:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 17:19 GMT	48 points
	The beautiful thing about the city of Toronto is that the Leafs are still worthless no matter what language you speak.

	BonnieH:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 17:20 GMT	7 points
	Gujarati. I love learning new things at Sporcle!

	RuBarb:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT	3 points
	LOL@hondo. nicely done quiz

	chikka2:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 17:47 GMT	8 points
	great quiz! Would love to see similar language distribution quizzes for other world cosmopolitan cities

	yony:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 18:01 GMT	9 points
	Thanks! For the record, since the source had both Mandarin, Cantonese, etc as well as a generic "Chinese - not specified", I combined all those into a single entry. For all others I stayed true to the source, and so the various entries for the languages from India, etc.

	Phreak:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 18:25 GMT	2 points
	What? No Klingon?

	Endasil:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 18:58 GMT	6 points
	Add another 500 to "Tamil". I typed in "Punjab" twice, wasn't smart enough to figure out the "i" at the end!

	ScottM:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 19:01 GMT	17 points
	I was really hoping the Kannada language of India would be on this, but there are only 1,445 speakers in Toronto.

	NoVan:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 19:24 GMT	1 point
	@Bretzky: Yo, nitpick. The name of Spanish in Spanish is "español"; you've got the French. Okay, I'm done. But on another topic, it's fairly interesting that none of the First Languages are represented.

	schak1971:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 20:49 GMT	11 points
	I need to learn how to spell Portuguese

	Bob91351:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 21:25 GMT	2 points
	I had the advantage of having worked in schools in Southern California, and just tried every language for which we had to report student numbers.

	icing:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 23:25 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz - very interesting, fun and challenging to play. I wondered if there was any sizeable First Nation population in Toronto that spoke a native language? Guess not, or not big enough to be statistically significant.

	ShortyNJ:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 23:54 GMT	2 points
	I was very disappointed not to have been given a bonus for "Canadian." Eh?

	Bretzky:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 02:29 GMT	5 points
	@NoVan: You are correct, sir. My French was interfering with my Spanish. My French is definitely better than my Spanish and I often forget that the "gn" sound in French is done with a "ñ" in Spanish.

	psacman:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 03:02 GMT	7 points
	I was kinda hoping "Yiddish" would be up there. Oy vey!

	Jamessir:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 03:58 GMT	5 points
	I can't believe Love wasn't there. Great quiz!

	segacs:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 04:09 GMT	2 points
	Also try Languages Spoken in Montreal: http://www.sporcle.com/games/segacs/montreal_languages.

	crazydiamond1to9:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 04:57 GMT	4 points
	wow, had no idea so many Indian languages (as in languages that are official languages in India) were spoken by so many Torontonians

	TheLuggage:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 05:20 GMT	2 points
	No pig latin or sign language :(

	BiloxiSean:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 06:21 GMT	0 points
	I know Toronto has a sizable Caribbean population, was surprised that jamaican patois wasn't on the list.

	AdamBishop:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 13:15 GMT	3 points
	Endasil, another 500 Tamils? Why? That ship landed in BC...

	juusosieni:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 13:19 GMT	0 points
	This quiz needs Kyrgyz as a bonus answer.

	moegoldberg:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 14:26 GMT	4 points
	I am quite surprised that there are more French speakers in Toronto than Russian speakers. I hear people speaking Russian all the time, and I hardly ever hear people speaking French.

	El_Duderino:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 15:15 GMT	1 point
	@ yony: Thanks for clarifying, b/c I was going to object to lumping together Mandarin and Cantonese. Those two languages have as wide a gulf as do the Indian and Pakistani languages.

	MrChewypoo:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 19:27 GMT	3 points
	@TheLuggage: If you drive in Toronto enough, you'll see LOTS of sign language!

	flixuk:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 21:31 GMT	-2 points
	I suppose the great number of Indian languages has to do with the free movement of peoples between colonies of the British Empire?

	yankeespurs101:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 02:13 GMT	2 points
	As I am a tamil, I feel proud that my language is ranked so high, but surprised because Hindi is so low.

	AhLeah:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 07:08 GMT	1 point
	Gujarati?!

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	paca:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 22:39 GMT	7 points
	@I am sorry Uhlan, but you do not statistically get any more multicultural than Toronto. Do not know what you mean by "famously"

	EatMorePossum:	Aug 22nd, 2010 at 04:46 GMT	3 points
	Interesting that no native American dialects (Cree, Inuktitut, etc.) make the list.

	Moldemort:	Aug 22nd, 2010 at 20:21 GMT	2 points
	Gujarati is a language mainly spoken in Gujarat, India but there are some speakers in other countries around the world particularly in the UK where it is offered as a GCSE subject. It doesn't seem that obscure to me but I guess I'm from the UK and my best friend speaks it :)

	jujuju:	Aug 23rd, 2010 at 02:49 GMT	3 points
	I really don't think it is that surprising that Aboriginal languages didn't make this list. There isn't a generally large Aboriginal population in the GTA anyway, and the odds of that population learning their own language before English in this day in age are slim to none.

	marsviking:	Aug 23rd, 2010 at 15:07 GMT	-4 points
	how did i miss italian? i remember driving thru the italian district and telling my brother, hurry before we get gunned down in a mafia meltdown--it took at least 1/2 hr to go through it