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Old Posted Nov 8, 2017, 5:53 PM
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Montreal seems to stand out, I'd even say, among the Western Hemisphere in terms of a major city with bilingual and even multilingual (if you include allophones separately too among English and French speakers) influence. Considering French, English and immigrant language speakers (taken as a whole) all have at least double digit percentages, I think that's a fairly unique thing in the New World.

American cities might have English and Spanish, but nowhere near the same equal relationship between them as English and French. Latin America has mostly Spanish or Portuguese, with some indigenous languages or creoles, but I don't think again there's the same relatively co-dominant relationship as in Montreal.

Montreal's situation is almost more a EU-like one (the way many European languages co-exist), with English and French in Canada rather than being similar linguistically to other places in Anglo-America or Latin America.
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