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The third was to consider the characteristics of people who have an Aboriginal language as a mother tongue . In the present paper I will give a brief overview of the data on the numbers of speakers of the Aboriginal languages and then a ...
The third was to consider the characteristics of people who have an Aboriginal language as a mother tongue . In the present paper I will give a brief overview of the data on the numbers of speakers of the Aboriginal languages and then a ...
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... language as a mother tongue . Among the ethnically Abo- riginal population , 23.3 % said that they had on Aboriginal language as their mother tongue , 62.5 % said English , 4.6 % said French , and 3.6 % gave other languages . Evidently ...
... language as a mother tongue . Among the ethnically Abo- riginal population , 23.3 % said that they had on Aboriginal language as their mother tongue , 62.5 % said English , 4.6 % said French , and 3.6 % gave other languages . Evidently ...
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nal language . The data here focus mainly on the percentage of these mother tongue speakers who also speak that language as their main home language . This measure is the best one we have of the degree to which Aboriginal languages are ...
nal language . The data here focus mainly on the percentage of these mother tongue speakers who also speak that language as their main home language . This measure is the best one we have of the degree to which Aboriginal languages are ...
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Roger Spielmann and Bertha Chief | 313 |
John A Strong | 327 |
MarcAdélard Tremblay and Josée Thivierge | 343 |
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