Bojan Djuricic: Language Other Than English

Naomi Sutorius-Lavoie Dept: OTTAWA - Selected highlights from Wednesday's Statistics Canada release of 2011 census data, focused on language:, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Nearly 10 million people said they could conduct a conversation in French, up from 9.6 million five years earlier; however, as a proportion of the population, those able to speak French slipped to 30.1 per cent, down from 30.7 per cent in 2006 and sPECIAL FOR CENSUS PACKAGE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Bojan Djuricic, left, and his wife Naomi Sutorius-Lavoie, right, read a Serbian book to their daughter Mila Sutorius- Djuricic in Toronto on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Djuricic will be taught to speak in English, French and Serbian. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette One in five Canadians some 6.6 million people reported speaking a language other than English or French at home; 191 distinct languages were among those identified as either a mother tongue or a home language. Related Items Articles Census 2011: more Punjabi and Tagalog, less French and aboriginal languages (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.