Quebec's Aboriginal Languages: History, Planning and Development

✍ Scribed by Jacques Maurais (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 352
Series: Multilingual Matters; 107
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume is the most complete of any published concerning the nine native languages of Quebec: Abenaki, Algonquin, Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, Micmac, Mohawk, Montagnais and Naskapi.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Biographical Notes
Preface to the English Edition
1 The Situation of Aboriginal Languages in the Americas
2 The Aboriginal Languages of Quebec, Past and Present
3 Aboriginal Language Policies of the Canadian and Quebec Governments
4 The State of the Art in Linguistic Research, Standardisation and Modernisation in Quebec Aboriginal Languages
5 Grammatical Sketches
5A Grammatical Sketches: The Mohawk Language
5B Grammatical Sketches: Montagnais: An Ethnogrammatical Description
5C Grammatical Sketches: Inuktitut
6 The Future of Aboriginal Languages
6A The Future of Algonquin
6B The Future of Atikamekw
6C The Future of the Cree Language
6D Is There a Future for the Huron Language?
6E The Future of Inuktitut
6F Will the Micmac Language Survive?
6G The Future of Mohawk
6H The Future of the Montagnais Language
6I The Current State and the Future of the Naskapi Language
7 The Aboriginal Languages in the Perspective of Language Planning
Bibliography
Index

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