translate English to French: A cohort analysis of census data (1981-1996) shows that the maintenance of an Aboriginal mother tongue as a home language is related to life cycle; language loss is most likely to occur during the ‘family formation’ years as youth leave home, enter the labour force, marry, start families or move to a larger urban environment.
Il existe une forte association linéaire inverse entre la continuité d’une langue (pour tous les âges) et les mariages mixtes (pourcentage d’enfants issus de mariages mixtes) pour les langues autochtones, comme illustrée à la Figure 5 et d’après Harrison (1997).