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Interesting – thanks! There is a claim that Toronto is the English-speaking world's most 'multicultural' city: is there any comparative Census work that backs this up? Greetings to all from summertime Melbourne, Adam -- Assoc. Prof. Adam Schembri, PhD https://latrobe.academia.edu/AdamSchembri Linguistics program | Department of Languages, Histories and Cultures | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria | 3086 | Australia |Tel : +61 3 9479 2887 | Mob: +61 432 840 744 | Twitter: @AdamCSchembri | Director, Centre for Research on Language Diversity http://www.latrobe.edu.au/crld & Linguistics Discipline Research Program| Sign Language Linguistics Society: http://www.slls.eu<http://www.slls.eu/> | ALLY Network Member supporting GLBTIQ students and staff: www.latrobe.edu.au/equality/ally http://www.latrobe.edu.au/equality/ally From: "Danielle E. Cyr" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:33:53 +0000 To: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Fwd: Interesting discovery: # of languages spoken by student population at Glendon For your interest (and amazement): Glendon College is part of York University in Toronto. It's student population is 2,600. All together, 104 different languages are spoken by one or more of these students. Dee the attached list. When we get the list for York U. itself ( 50,000 students), I'll forward it as welll. Best to All, Danielle E. Cyr, York University Toronto, Canada ---- Original Message ---- From: Francoise Reme <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> To: "CRLC-CRCL" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Sent: Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 1:19 PM Subject: Interesting discovery: # of languages spoken by student population at Glendon Dear colleagues, Research offices at Glendon are assisting us with census surveys to identify languages spoken by the student population at Glendon. Soon they will provide us with the number of speakers for each of these languages. These promising first results indicate that 104 languages are spoken by students on the Glendon campus (see document attached). We can just imagine the number of languages on the Keele campus! This is quitea significant number that definitely justify studying linguistic contact in our own academic environment! More statistics and documents are being prepared for our February 7 workshop mapping research on language contact at York and in Canada. More information on the workshop to come on this topic soon. Looking forward to seeing you next Friday. Dominique ********************************** Chers collègues, Les services à la recherche de Glendon viennent d’effectuer un premier recensement pour identifier les langues parlées par nos étudiants à Glendon. Bientôt nous connaîtrons le nombre de locuteurs pour chacune de ces langues. Ces premiers résultats très prometteurs ont révélé que 104 langues sont parlées à Glendon (Voir document ci-joint). Nous ne pouvons qu’imaginer les chiffres pour le campus de Keele! Ce chiffre très significatif justifie pleinement l’étude ducontact linguistique dans notre propre environnement académique. D'autres statistiques et documents seront fournis à l'atelier du 7 février pour préparer notre cartographie de la recherche sur le contact linguistique à York, et au Canada. Plus d’informations sur l'atelier seront fournies très prochainement. Dominique Centre for Research on Language Contact Glendon, York University ________________________________ The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1 ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1