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2. Canadian English - Wikipedia

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   However, Ontario maintains greater similarities with other Canadian regions than it does with the neighbouring American English and its regional variations. [102] Northern Ontario English has several distinct qualities stemming from its large Franco-Ontarian population. As a result several French and English words are used interchangeably.

3. Inland Northern American English - Wikipedia

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   party store, in Michigan, for a liquor store; rummage sale, in Wisconsin, as a synonym for garage sale or yard sale; treelawn, in Cleveland and Michigan; devilstrip or devil's strip in Akron, Ohio; [43] and right-of-way in Wisconsin and parkway in Chicago for the grass between the sidewalk and the street

4. Ottawa dialect - Wikipedia

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   Ottawa is known to its speakers as Nishnaabemwin 'speaking the native language' (from Anishinaabe 'native person' + verb suffix -mo 'speak a language' + suffix -win 'nominalizer', with regular deletion of short vowels); the same term is applied to the Eastern Ojibwe dialect. [4] The corresponding term in other dialects is Anishinaabemowin. [5]

5. Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia

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   Uto-Aztecan has the most speakers (1.95 million) if the languages in Mexico are considered (mostly due to 1.5 million speakers of Nahuatl); Na-Dené comes in second with approximately 200,000 speakers (nearly 180,000 of these are speakers of Navajo), and Algic in third with about 180,000 speakers (mainly Cree and Ojibwe).

6. Near-native speaker - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, the term near-native speakers is used to describe speakers who have achieved "levels of proficiency that cannot be distinguished from native levels in everyday spoken communication and only become apparent through detailed linguistic analyses" [1] (p. 484) in their second language or foreign languages. Analysis of native and ...

7. English Canadians - Wikipedia

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   [34] and assumed a place among the world's best-known English-language literary figures. Journalist Pierre Berton wrote a number of books popularizing Canadian history which had a particular resonance among English-speaking Canadians, while critics and philosophers such as Northrop Frye and John Ralston Saul have attempted to analyze the ...

8. Algonquian peoples - Wikipedia

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   At the time of the first European settlements in North America, Algonquian peoples resided in present-day Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, New England, New Jersey, southeastern New York, Delaware, and down the Atlantic Coast to the Upper South, and around the Great Lakes in present-day Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

9. Quebec French - Wikipedia

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   Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government.