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English language. Canadian English ( CanE, CE, en-CA) [ 5] encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). [ 6] In the Canadian province of Quebec, only 7.5% ...
The first clear evidence of eh's usage in Canada was in 1836, through the writings of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Nova-Scotian district judge and comical writer. [2] Eh was first recognized as being a marker of being Canadian in 1959 by Harold B. Allen; he stated that eh is "so exclusively a Canadian feature that immigration officials use it as an identifying clue. [4]"
Newfoundland English is any of several accents and dialects of Atlantic Canadian English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Most of these differ substantially from the English commonly spoken elsewhere in Canada and North America . The dialects that comprise Newfoundland English developed because of Newfoundland's history and ...
An editorial cartoon, c. 1910, portraying Johnny Canuck. Canuck / k ə ˈ n ʌ k / is a slang term for a Canadian.While there are some sources that claim the origins of the word are uncertain, [1] or related to the Iroquoian word for village (kanata), the term comes from the influx of Kanaka Maoli to what would become British Columbia. [2]
Quebec French lexicon. There are various lexical differences between Quebec French and Metropolitan French in France. These are distributed throughout the registers, from slang to formal usage. Notwithstanding Acadian French in the Maritime Provinces, Quebec French is the dominant form of French throughout Canada, with only very limited ...
Slang words used widely in Canada. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. N. Native American slang (3 P) Pages in category "Canadian slang"
Use of English. In 2011, just under 21.5 million Canadians, representing 65% of the population, spoke English most of the time at home, while 58% declared it their mother language. [ 14] English is the major language everywhere in Canada except Quebec and Nunavut, and most Canadians (85%) can speak English. [ 15]
Standard Canadian English is the largely homogeneous variety of Canadian English that is spoken particularly across Ontario and Western Canada, as well as throughout Canada among urban middle-class speakers from English-speaking families, [1] excluding the regional dialects of Atlantic Canadian English. Canadian English has a mostly uniform ...