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Spanish was the first European language to be used in Texas, especially during the years when Texas was a province of Mexico and Spanish was the official language. Other early immigrants arriving directly from Europe such as Germans , Poles , Czechs , [ 14 ] and Sorbs [ 15 ] (also called Wends ) also brought their own languages, sometimes ...
National language A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.)
Child language data for Mam challenge many theories of language acquisition and demonstrate the need for more extensive documentation of native American languages. [ 39 ] Children acquiring Mam produce a higher proportion of verbs than children acquiring K’iche’, but a lower proportion of verbs compared to children acquiring Wastek and Chol.
Cherokee is one of the few, or perhaps the only, Native American language with an increasing population of speakers, [119] and along with Navajo it is the only indigenous American language with more than 50,000 speakers, [120] a figure most likely achieved through the tribe's 10-year long language preservation plan involving growing new ...
Felix Tijerina, then the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), along with Tony Campos, David Adame, and Jacob Rodriguez, devised this program to help children better transition into the English-language environment of public schooling, and ultimately integrating in a segregated Texas. [1]
A total of 38 United States counties have a majority of residents who speak a language other than English at home, according to data from the Modern Language Association's MLA's Data Map Center published in 2010. [1] The following is a list of U.S. counties where English is a minority language.
The San Marcos Education Foundation is a non-profit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) public corporation operating independently under its own board of directors. The Foundation was created in 2003 to generate financial support for educational programs that are not available through the normal operating budget of the San Marcos CISD.
The new San Marcos High School opened in August 2007, and all the elementary schools in the district were completed and opened by Fall of 2009. In 2011, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. [2] In May, 2013, San Marcos Consolidated ISD voters approved another $77 million in bonds.