LIGN 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Heritage Language, Korean Language, Crutching
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Lecture 14 heritage languages: languages of the asian. Heritage language: heritage language" = a language learned at home which is not the dominant/mainstream language of the community, heritage speaker" = somebody who speaks or even understands the language (functional and passive bilinguals) Heritage language use in the us 2000: percentage of speakers of languages other than english (total = 47 million out of. 262. 4 million people (18%)): languages spoken at home (% of population in 2000, chinese: 2, tagalog: 1. 2, french: 1. 6, vietnamese: 1% Arabic 0. 6: % increase from 1990 to 2000, spanish: 62, asian and pacific island languages: 55. 6% Heritage languages from asia 2015: the us asian population grew 72% between 2000 and 2015 (from 11. 9 million to. Diversity within asian american communities: different countries of origin, different waves of immigration, different languages, these different languages show, typological diversity, structural diversity. 2: filipino: 20th century (& before) due to colonization, pacific islander (hawaiian, samoan, tongan, guamanian)
