Canadian english
Canada has two official languages-english and french out of which english is spoken by about 57% of the population and 68% of the population speaks it as its native language.it is the majority language spoken in every province and territory of canada except quebec where the province has a french speaking majority and nunavut where the province hs inakut speaking majority. Though english and french are the two official languages of canada, outside quebec about 80%of the poulation have english as their home language and the remaining speak other nonofficial languages. in the province toronto and vancouver, higher immigration from non english speaking countries has reduced the number of native english speakers in these provinces …show more content…
The out raising makes the vowel sound more like ‘oot’ to American ears and another is the “low back merger”which makes caught and cot sound the same. Following on this is what is called the “Canadian vowel shift”, whereby bit sounds a bit like bet, bet sounds a bit like bat, and bat is said a bit farther back in the mouth.the first one is present in canada but not everywhere and te second one is still in …show more content…
For the native canadian language to maintain its integrity , its very important for the canadian people to keep the ;anguage alive through education, communictaion , literature as the initiative has been done recently by the canadian education sysytem to relate the oxford dictionaries to the canadian usage, a condition that was partly remedied and shown in 1962 in the canadian dictionary because The "official"orthography taught in Canadian schools is and always has been the British standard of spelling, and the "official" dictionaries are British, the various Oxford and akin lexicons and not Webster being in most cases the ranking authorities.
In the end this shows us that canadian english is very similar to our lives that is struggling to stand up for itserlf and its traditions though also under the influence of strong outside powers. It would be interesting to see the onward development of canadian english as to how it will be able to nurture those small unique diffrences in its pronumciation, dialect, speeling, grammar and vocabulary to make itself special or will it merge into a big
Canada has two official languages-english and french out of which english is spoken by about 57% of the population and 68% of the population speaks it as its native language.it is the majority language spoken in every province and territory of canada except quebec where the province has a french speaking majority and nunavut where the province hs inakut speaking majority. Though english and french are the two official languages of canada, outside quebec about 80%of the poulation have english as their home language and the remaining speak other nonofficial languages. in the province toronto and vancouver, higher immigration from non english speaking countries has reduced the number of native english speakers in these provinces …show more content…
The out raising makes the vowel sound more like ‘oot’ to American ears and another is the “low back merger”which makes caught and cot sound the same. Following on this is what is called the “Canadian vowel shift”, whereby bit sounds a bit like bet, bet sounds a bit like bat, and bat is said a bit farther back in the mouth.the first one is present in canada but not everywhere and te second one is still in …show more content…
For the native canadian language to maintain its integrity , its very important for the canadian people to keep the ;anguage alive through education, communictaion , literature as the initiative has been done recently by the canadian education sysytem to relate the oxford dictionaries to the canadian usage, a condition that was partly remedied and shown in 1962 in the canadian dictionary because The "official"orthography taught in Canadian schools is and always has been the British standard of spelling, and the "official" dictionaries are British, the various Oxford and akin lexicons and not Webster being in most cases the ranking authorities.
In the end this shows us that canadian english is very similar to our lives that is struggling to stand up for itserlf and its traditions though also under the influence of strong outside powers. It would be interesting to see the onward development of canadian english as to how it will be able to nurture those small unique diffrences in its pronumciation, dialect, speeling, grammar and vocabulary to make itself special or will it merge into a big