The Manitoba provincial government recently announced that it will be putting forward $300,000 in funding in an attempt to increase the number of Indigenous language translators across the province.
Manitoba hopes to train 45 speakers and 35 translators in Indigenous languages including Dakota, Michif, Cree and Ojibway over the next three years.
The announcement is part of a partnership with Indigenous Languages of Manitoba Inc. They're looking to help strengthen the continued use of Indigenous languages in the province for the future.
The announcement comes after reports from the 2016 census showed that more people in Canada are learning Indigenous languages as a second language than ever before including about 15% that said they could hold a conversation in an Indigenous language while there was an increase of 3.1% of the population that could speak in an Indigenous language.
The language info from the 2021 census has yet to be released.
