Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoWab Kinew Wants to Make Manitoba a Bilingual Province “Like New Brunswick”www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down11
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minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoIn BC, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have roughly equal numbers to French speakers, and there are few French speaking enclaves, unlike Manitoba. If you’re in Richmond, retail signs and ads are often Chinese first, etc.
minus-squareSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoHowever French is the second most spoken language in BC.
minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoYes, by .25%. Mandarin is .3% less at 6.36% – splitting hairs. I am in favour of franco-anglo bilingualism, but would like a postcolonial and regional approach. I fully expect salish languages to become more popular as well in the next couple of generations.
minus-squareSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoWe definitely need to fund more indigenous language programs.
In BC, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have roughly equal numbers to French speakers, and there are few French speaking enclaves, unlike Manitoba. If you’re in Richmond, retail signs and ads are often Chinese first, etc.
However French is the second most spoken language in BC.
Yes, by .25%. Mandarin is .3% less at 6.36% – splitting hairs.
I am in favour of franco-anglo bilingualism, but would like a postcolonial and regional approach.
I fully expect salish languages to become more popular as well in the next couple of generations.
We definitely need to fund more indigenous language programs.
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