GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Language Family, Official Language, Germanic Languages
22 Jun 2018
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THE GEOGRAPHY OF
LANGUAGE
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Introduction
•65% of Canadians speak more than one language
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list of languages representing the most common mother tongue in each jurisdiction
Canadians Hamiltonians ]
Language Number %Language Number %Mother tongue :language that you first learned at
English 18.9 million
56.31
.English 379000
72.8%
achild
French 7.1 million 21.1 'l.French 7000
1.3%
other #6.6 million 1916% Other #118000
22.8%
+German 409000
1.2%
tArabic 6290 1.2%
tItalian 408000
1.2%
+Croatian 4990
0.91
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+Punjabi 431000
1.3%
tItalian 16760
3.2%
+Spanish 411000
1.2%
tPolish 7less
1.5%
tCantonese 373000
lilt
.+Portuguese 7335 t4 't
tMandarin 249000
07%
+Serbian 5530
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+Oth ,Chinese 425000 1.3% tSpanish 7305 1.4%
Language
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Idet 't afundamental way that he dilhnguish between Cultural Groups
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we gravitate towards people who speak the same language
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Language is acultural variable : alearned behaviour
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language is antelul tool to delimit groups and religions
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Language and the survival of cultural groups
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central to the preservation of cultures .: if the language disappears then is fear that acultural group will disappear along with
their unique qualities and what dehhy them as aculture
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eg .Quebec is like an Island within an English speaking environment .There is afear that people will stop speaking French :.
to prevent this there is asign law when signs must be written in French
African Languages
How Many Languages ?North American languages
•As many as 7000 languages existed prior to the period of European
colonization
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Today less than 6000 →ie .North America +Africa
•Is the loss of language a+ or -thing ?
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Positive "Improved global communication
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Negative :loss of culture akin to declining biodiversity
Document Summary
Canadians speak more than one language list of languages representing the most common mother tongue in each jurisdiction. Mother tongue : language that you first learned at. I det "t a fundamental way that he dilhnguish between. Groups we gravitate towards people who speak the same language. Language is a cultural variable a learned behaviour language is a ntelul tool to delimit groups and religions. There is a fear that people will stop speaking french : to prevent this there is a sign law when signs must be written in. 7000 languages existed prior to the period of european colonization. Negative : loss of culture akin to declining biodiversity. Language family 1 language tree ) : a group of closely named related languages that likely share a common land ancient. Branch : a subset of a language family , and with move recent origin lie past several thousand years )
