Study Examines Kids’ Knowledge Of Native Languages
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 13:42
A new report out from Statistics Canada says one in five First Nations children living off-reserve is able to understand an Aboriginal language.
That understanding is regardless of whether or not they learned their mother tongue as a first or second langauge.
Cree and Ojibway were the languages understood by the largest number of these children.
The numbers were taken out of the 2006 census.
The research indicates about one in 10 off-reserve children aged 2 to 5 years were spoken to primarily in an Aboriginal language at home.