Talk:List of multilingual countries and regions
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[edit] Number of French speakers in Canada
The article claims that approximately 25 % of the population of Canada can speak French. I was under the impression however that 23 % was the percentage of Canadians who speak French as first language. The percentage of Canadians who are fluent in French either as first or second language (i.e including bilingual Anglophones) is somewhat higher though (I believe, close to 30 %). Could anyone check the official figures from Statistics Canada ? 161.24.19.82 13:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I found this on a StatsCan page (http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/lang/officiallanguages/englishfrenchbilingualism): "In 1996, 67% of Canada’s population were able to conduct a conversation in English only, 14% in French only and 17% in both of these languages. Around 2% of people enumerated reported not knowing either of these two languages."
In the "List of multi..." article, I've changed the numbers and added the word 'another' so the text reads "...25% of Canadians speak French with another 18% speaking both English and French". DDD DDD 23:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cities / criteria / structure
That list of cities is getting longer and longer. Fair enough. I'm wondering if we should make some sort of criteria or structure for that list. Maybe we could divide the list by geographical region/continents (africa, americas, asia, etc...). Or possibly by city population (for example: 2.5 million+, 1 million to 2.499,999 million, 250,000 to 999,999, 100,000 to 249,999, less than 100,000 - although we could end up with a VERY long list if we did it like this). Also, I believe the wiki article for that city should already indicate the city's liguistic features so we could go to the city article and verify/learn more. Anybody? Thoughts? DDD DDD 00:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
