Muntelier (French name: Montilier; ) is a municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. History Muntelier is first mentioned in 1270 as Es Montelliers. Geography Muntelier has an area of . Of this area, or 26.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 36.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 3.5% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 14.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 12.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.8% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 5.3%. Out of the forested land, 31.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 20.4% is used for growing crops and 3.5% is pastures, while 2.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the See/Lac district. This former fishing village is now a commuter town and part of the agglomeration of Murten. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules on a Bend sable a Pike proper. Demographics Muntelier has a population () of . , 11.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 25.2%. Migration accounted for 24.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (623 or 86.6%) as their first language, French is the second most common (57 or 7.9%) and Portuguese is the third (15 or 2.1%). There are 3 people who speak Italian. , the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 380 Swiss men (42.8% of the population) and 57 (6.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 404 Swiss women (45.5%) and 46 (5.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 138 or about 19.2% were born in Muntelier and lived there in 2000. There were 142 or 19.7% who were born in the same canton, while 328 or 45.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 103