Allophones
Québec's allophone community represents approximately 6.5% of Québec's total population when counting individuals who, during the population census conducted by Statistics Canada in 2001, claimed to speak mostly this a language other than French or English.
General
Is an allophone someone whose first language or language of adoption is neither French or English. An allophone may therefore be a native speaker of any language that is not French or English, but the language that this person speaks in the privacy of his or her home is still neither French nor English. The Quebec allophone population numbers ~460,000 when counting by home language. Of those, ~732,000 are native speakers of a language other than French or English. It therefore follows from this that Quebec's francophone and anglophone communities assimilate a significant proportion of allophones.
Allophones may speak languages other than their home language, often French or English or both.