Population and politics in a plural society: the changing geography of Canada's linguistic groups
Canada ; Cultural studies ; Ethnicity ; Internal migration ; Language ; Linguistic area ; Nationalism ; Population ; Population projection
by the linguistic landscape and by the nature and direction of population change. Linguistic affiliation determines one's propensity to remain within a region and guides the choice of destinations. The bifurcation of Canada into unilingual regions will be renforced.
The linguistic analysis supports the hypothesis that Wisconsin glacier ice influenced the distribution of native North American linguistic groups. The distribution of languages suggests that the arrival of humans in the New World predated the last
glacial maximum (approximately 18,000 yr ago). The positions of the Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene linguistic groups during the Wisconsin glacial maximum are hypothesized to have been northwest of the main ice sheet, while the Algonquian linguistic group
Minority toponyms on maps. The rendering of linguistic minority toponyms on topographic maps of Western Europe
Purpose of this thesis is the reconstruction of the various trends or developments in the government approach to toponyms. This is done by comparing subsequent map series of the same areas where linguistic minorities were or are prevalent. The study
is by no means a linguistic study but it is intended to be a cartographical analysis. The study has been carried out in a number of contact-zones such as Belgium, Wales, Scotland, South Tirol, Carinthia, Lausatia, Vallée d'Aosta and Corsica. (AGD).
Demographic russification and linguistic russianization of the Ukraine 1959-1979 in Geographical studies on the Soviet Union. Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris.
Geographer's role ; Linguistics ; Nineteenth Century ; Place names ; Slovenia ; Terminology ; Twenty-first century
to the forefront together with linguists. After this, Slovenian geographers were involved in this topic to various extents. In the past decades a leading role has been assumed by certain geographers, who seek to integrate Slovenian toponymy within modern trends