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  2. FirstVoices - Wikipedia

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    FirstVoices is an open-source web platform for language revitalization projects, which supports Indigenous communities to share and promote their languages, oral culture and linguistic history. [1] It is a joint initiative of the First Peoples' Cultural Council (a First Nations-led Crown Corporation in British Columbia , Canada) and the First ...

  3. Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development ...

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    According to the 2006 Canadian census "only 12.4% of Indigenous children aged 0-4 [were] learning an Indigenous language at home; another 5% [were] acquiring one as an additional language." [23] By 2007 "The forecast for preserving and revitalizing Canada’s Indigenous languages was gloomy. [24] [25]

  4. Saanich dialect - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... together with the FirstVoices program for revitalizing Aboriginal languages, ... "All human beings are born free and equal in ...

  5. Deaf life for Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    On October 1, 2022, the Mi'kmaw Language Act came into effect in Nova Scotia. This act recognizes Miꞌkmaq as the first language of the province and promotes protection and revitalization efforts. [28] The Indigenous Languages Act received royal assent in 2019 with the goal of preserving and revitalizing Indigenous languages.

  6. Languages of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, Bill C-91, the Indigenous Languages Act passed in 2019, was enacted to support and revitalize indigenous languages across Canada. This legislation, aims to reclaim, revitalize, and maintain indigenous languages through sustainable funding and the establishment of the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages.

  7. Marianne Ignace - Wikipedia

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    Marianne Boelscher Ignace FRSC (born 1954) is a Canadian linguist and anthropologist. Married into the Shuswap people, she is a Full professor in the departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Director of SFU's Indigenous Languages Program and First Nations Language Centre.

  8. International Decade of Indigenous Languages - Wikipedia

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    International Decade of Indigenous Languages is an initiative launched by the United Nations with a mission to raise awareness on Indigenous language preservation, revitalization and promotion. The initiative is launched as per the suggestion from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues, the UN general assembly has declared the decade starting ...

  9. Indigenous resurgence - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous resurgence is defined as an individual's personal change through daily acts of resistance against the constructs and the limitations set by the settler colonialist state; to resist being what is expected and to live, study, work, and act within the Indigenous ways of being.