Sentences with phrase «official language minority»

This can be read as excluding funding for court challenges under the Official Languages Act or provincial / territorial laws affecting official language minority rights.

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First Nations, Métis, Inuit, immigrants, apprentices, lower - skilled workers and official - language minority communities may be eligible for funding.

Advocates and local elected officials have pushed for a more comprehensive outreach plan by the state to ensure the tens of thousands of residents, many of whom are minorities and speak a language other than English at home, know about the need for testing.

And that doesn't even begin to capture the huge amounts of dialects (and local languages when there were ethnic minorities) that were spoken (or still are) before countries heavily promoted their official languages.

Through an interdisciplinary treatment this book opens new perspectives on the history of Canada's official language communities, the structure of linguistic conflict, legal regulation, constitutional rights, minority language education and linguistic politics.