Heritage Language Speaker Map

• This map of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) shows (approximately) where many of the speakers in the HLVC project live.
• You can see the geographic distribution for each language and generation by clicking on groups in the table on the left.
• Then click on the pointer on the map to hear and read a sample of that person's speech.
• Speakers are represented anonymously, but each "speaker code" provides information about the speaker's Heritage Language, generation, gender, and age.
• You can listen to the people with loudspeaker icons.

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For information about immigration patterns of some of Toronto’s Heritage Language communities, including arrival, settlement, and cultural life, see the School of Cities website. The site maps first-language speakers of many different languages across the region in 1971, 1996, and 2021. For each language, they share a brief account of how these communities formed and changed over time.