Heritage Language Maintenance among Bangladeshi Immigrants in语言遗产维护孟加拉移民.pptVIP

* ‘Little Bangladesh’: A Language Landscape Subi Subhan * Locale * (Source: /atlas/country/india.html) * Foreign-born population in several major metropolitan cities Sources: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census; Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001; U.S., Census Bureau, 2000 (Ryerson University, 2004) * Top Spoken Languages of the World: Number of Native Speakers Rank Order Language Number of speakers1 Mandarin Chinese 885,000,0002 Spanish 332,000,000 3 English 322,000,000 4 Bengali (Bangla) 189,000,000 5 Hindi 182,000,000 6 Portuguese 170,000,000 6 Russi