English language
The impact of the English language on immigration
English is one of the two official languages of Canada. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, English is the mother tongue of approximately 19.5 million people, or 57% of the population, and the first official language of approximately 26 million people, or 75% of the Canadian population. English is the majority language in every Canadian province and territory except Quebec (which has a French-speaking majority) and Nunavut (which has an Inuit-speaking majority who speak Inuktitut and Inwinnakton). In Quebec, English is the mother tongue of 8.1% of the population and the first official language of 13.7% of the population. In Quebec, the proportion of English speakers (or anglophones) has declined sharply since the 19th century, when it was around 25%. Higher birth rates among French speakers (or Francophones) and the departure of many English speakers to pursue better economic opportunities in other provinces gradually reduced this proportion to around 14% by the mid-20th century. Beginning in the 1970s, political upheavals caused a more dramatic decline. The provincial government introduced language laws to protect French life by restricting the use of English in business, education, government and public signage. English currently has no official status at the provincial level in Quebec (see Quebec Language Policy). At the same time, many French people wanted Quebec to separate from Canada. Most English people objected to the language laws and opposed secession. Many responded to the conflict by leaving Quebec. In the 1990s, the emigration of nearly 200,000 English speakers reduced Montreal’s English-speaking community by a third. Despite these losses, English is still the mother tongue of about 8% of Quebec’s population, with 44.5% of the population reporting that they can speak both English and French. In Greater Montreal, where the majority of English speakers in Quebec currently live, native English speakers are 13.2% of the metropolitan population (533,845). Even where English is the majority language, it often coexists with other languages. In Toronto and Vancouver, high levels of immigration from non-English speaking countries have reduced the proportion of native English speakers to more than half of the metropolitan population. It should also be remembered that not all native speakers of English in Canada are native speakers of Canadian English. Some are immigrants who grew up in other English-speaking countries and therefore speak other varieties of English. In the discussion that follows, Canadian English is taken to mean the variety of English spoken by people who have acquired native English proficiency while growing up mostly in Canada. (See also French; Indigenous languages of Canada; Languages used. ) Modern Canadian English Recent immigration to Canada from around the world, although involving much larger groups of people than in previous periods, has had relatively little influence on the development of Canadian English, which reached its present form in 1867 with Canadian Confederation. Today’s children of immigrants are rapidly assimilating to the large Canadian-born population with patterns of English already spoken by the majority of people in their adopted communities. However, Canadian English, like all dialects and languages, continues to evolve, with small changes occurring within each generation of speakers. Even though the core features of Canadian English are relatively stable, new words and ways of saying things are always emerging, while older expressions fall out of fashion and disappear. Some of these changes, along with enduring features of Canadian English, are discussed in the following sections. Today’s children of immigrants are rapidly assimilating to the large Canadian-born population with patterns of English already spoken by the majority of people in their adopted communities. However, Canadian English, like all dialects and languages, continues to evolve, with small changes occurring within each generation of speakers. Even though the core features of Canadian English are relatively stable, new words and ways of saying things are always emerging, while older expressions fall out of fashion and disappear. Some of these changes, along with enduring features of Canadian English, are discussed in the following sections. Today’s children of immigrants are rapidly assimilating to the large Canadian-born population with patterns of English already spoken by the majority of people in their adopted communities. However, Canadian English, like all dialects and languages, continues to evolve, with small changes occurring within each generation of speakers. Even though the core features of Canadian English are relatively stable, new words and ways of saying things are always emerging, while older expressions fall out of fashion and disappear. Some of these changes, along with enduring features of Canadian English, are discussed in the following sections. Even though the core features of Canadian English are relatively stable, new words and ways of saying things are always emerging, while older expressions fall out of fashion and disappear. Some of these changes, along with enduring features of Canadian English, are discussed in the following sections. Even though the core features of Canadian English are relatively stable, new words and ways of saying things are always emerging, while older expressions fall out of fashion and disappear. Some of these changes, along with enduring features of Canadian English, are discussed in the following sections.
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