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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.
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]
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 ...
The open-source platform FirstVoices hosts community-managed websites for 85 language revitalization projects, covering multiple varieties of 33 Indigenous languages in British Columbia as well as over a dozen languages from "elsewhere in Canada and around the globe", along with 17 dictionary apps. [36]
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.
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.
Under the Consolidation of Official Languages Act, Inuktitut became an official language of Nunavut. [5] The first official implementation of the Indigenous Languages Act occurred in 2019 with the Revitalizing and Strengthening Inuktitut in Nunavut Program, as a collaborative effort between The Government of Canada, the Government of Nunavut ...
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 ...