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''[[Canada Genealogy|Canada]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[British Columbia Genealogy|British Columbia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[ | ''[[Canada Genealogy|Canada]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[British Columbia Genealogy|British Columbia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[British Columbia Language and Languagess|Language and Languages]]'' | ||
=== Background === | === Background === | ||
Most British Columbia government records will be in English. Private and organizational records may be in a variety of languages.<br> | |||
According to the 2011 census, English, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Punjabi, German, Tagalog, French, Korean, Spanish, and Farsi were then the top 10 languages spoken in BC. <sup>1</sup><br> | |||
Over 30 Indigenous languages are spoken in British Columbia. <sup>2</sup><br> | |||
Historically since European contact, along with indigenous languages, during the fur trading period French, Scots, Chinook 3 (a trade language) and Michif 4 (the Métis language), Hawaiian were spoken. <br> | |||
In some cases, early missionaries learned and used Chinook and indignous languages, as well as French and or English and Latin. . <br> | |||
From the 1850s gold rush period and later, new immigrants brought the Chinese, Japanese and Scandinavian and South Asian languages.<br> | |||
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=== Language Tools === | |||
The FamilySearch wiki includes a number of genealogical word lists in English and other languages. <br> | |||
First People's Language Map of British Columbia<br> | |||
[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35492/35492-h/35492-h.htm ''Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Indian Trade Language of the North Pacific Coast''](T. N. Hibben Co., Publishers, Victoria, 1889), online at Project Gutenburg.<br> | |||
[https://archive.org/details/chinookfirstread00leje ''Chinook first reading book: including Chinook hymns, syllabary and vocabulary''] / by Jean Marie Raphaël Le Jeune (Kamloops, 1893), online at the Internet Archive. <br> | |||
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<sup>1</sup> [http://www.gov.bc.ca/bcfacts/ B.C. Quick Facts], Government of Province of British Columbia <br> | |||
<sup>2</sup> [http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/culture/languages.html Indigenous Foundations], University of British Columbia. | |||
<sup>3</sup> [http://www.backhouse.ca/History-and-Heritage/a-skookum-language.html "A Skookum Language"] [Chinook] by Frances Backhouse (''British Columbia Magazine'', Summer 2008).<br> | |||
<sup>4</sup> [http://www.learnmichif.com/ Learn Mechif], Metis Youth British Columbia (MYBC) and the Métis Nation BC (MNBC).<br> | |||
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