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== Use of the language ==
In 1991, Italian was the unofficial language with the most mother
Data from the 2011 Toronto Census are noteworthy. 55.4% of the population are native English speakers while the other official language, French, is used by just 1.3% of the population. Another interesting aspect of this census is the high percentage of those who use neither official language: 43.3% of the population, in fact, are native speakers of neither English nor French. 8.1% of the population are native speakers of Chinese and 3.1% are native speakers of Italian, which happens to be the third most spoken language in Canada's most populous center.<ref name="Zanni">Zanni 2012, ''Italiani all'estero, a Toronto si parla ancora italiano'' in ItaliaChiamaItalia. [https://www.italiachiamaitalia.it/italiani-all%E2%80%99estero-a-toronto-si-parla-ancora-italiano-di-roberto-zanni/]</ref><ref>By 'mother tongue' is understood the L1 that has been learnt from birth and is at all times spoken and understood at the time of the census.</ref>
Data from 2011 on the use of Italian by young Italian-Montrealese in the family context report that "38% of them speak Italian, solely or in combination with other languages, in interactions with their mothers and 34% in interactions with their fathers, while if only Italian is considered, these percentages drop to 3% with their mothers and 7% with their fathers."<ref>{{Harvtxt|Villata|ref=Villata|p=49}}</ref> The percentages of Italian-only use go up in interaction with grandparents: 60 percent of young people speak only Italian with their grandmother and 58 percent only Italian with their grandfather.
According to Bruno Villata, Italian:
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