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In 2015, Quebec's Inuit numbered 12,129 people. [2] As of 2023, 98% of Nunavik's residents speak Nunavimmiutitut, a local dialect of Inuktitut and part of the Eskaleut language family, as their native language. They also know English and French because they are taught these languages in school. [3]
Three families of aboriginal languages exist in Quebec, which encompass eleven languages. Each of these languages belong to and are spoken by members of a specific ethnic group. Sometimes, the language in question is spoken natively by all members of the group, sometimes they are spoken only by a few individuals.
1969 – An Act to promote the French language in Quebec (provincial) 1969 – Official Languages Act (federal) There are two sets of language laws in Quebec, which overlap and in various areas conflict or compete with each other: the laws passed by the Parliament of Canada and the laws passed by the National Assembly of Quebec.
Algonquins are original Indigenous People of southern Quebec and eastern Ontario in Canada. Many Algonquins still speak the Algonquin language, called generally Anicinàpemowin or specifically Omàmiwininìmowin. The language is considered one of several divergent dialects of the Anishinaabe languages.
There are several dialects of Omàmìwininìmowin (the Algonquin language), generally grouped broadly as Northern Algonquin and Western Algonquin.Speakers at Kitigan Zibi consider their language to be Southern Algonquin, though linguistically it is a dialect of Nipissing Ojibwa which, together with Mississauga Ojibwa and Odawa, form the Nishnaabemwin (Eastern Ojibwa) group of the Ojibwa ...
In Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, "Aboriginal peoples of Canada" includes Indian, Inuit, and Métis peoples. [17] "Aboriginal" as a collective noun [18] is a specific term of art used as a legal term encompassing all Indigenous peoples living in Canada.
A Blackfoot language text with both the syllabics and the Latin orthography. Blackfoot, another Algonquian language, uses a syllabary developed in the 1880s that is quite different from the Cree and Inuktitut versions. Although borrowing from Cree the ideas of rotated and mirrored glyphs with final variants, most of the letter forms derive from ...
The Atikamekw language, likely a variety of Cree in the Algonquian family, is closely related to that of the Innu. It is still in everyday use, being among the Indigenous languages least threatened with extinction. [2] Their traditional ways of life are endangered, however, as their homeland has largely been taken over by logging companies.