Download or read book Quebec's Aboriginal Languages written by Jacques Maurais and published by Multilingual Matters Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven essays examine the nine languages of native people in the otherwise French-speaking province. They look at the situation of aboriginal languages in the Americas as a whole as well as in Quebec, language policies of the Canadian and Quebec governments, the state of scholarship and modernization, grammatical sketches and predictions for the future for each language, and the role of the aboriginal languages in the perspective of language planning. Translated from Les langues autochtones du Quebec for which neither date nor publisher is noted. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR