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The languages of Australia are the major historic and current languages used in Australia and its offshore islands. Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact. [1] English is the majority language of Australia today.
Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English language: Few Nearly extinct Pidgin. Developed post-contact. Has been mostly creolized. Australian Kriol language: Creole, Pidgin English, Roper-Bamyili Creole 4,200 Vigorous WA, NT & Qld developed post-contact. 10, 000 second language speakers. Awabakal language: Awabakal 9 Dormant NSW. Being revived.
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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... languages of Australia: Universal Decimal: 811(94)
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Australian languages typically resist certain connected speech processes which might blur the place of articulation of consonants at C 1 (C 2), such as anticipatory assimilation of place of articulation, which is common around the world. In Australia, this type of assimilation seems only to have affected consonants within the apical and laminal ...
It is the first legislation in Australia to acknowledge the significance of First Languages. [13] The Aboriginal Language and Culture Nest project in NSW draws together communities with a common language to create opportunities to "revitalise, reclaim and maintain traditional languages". [14]
These are the names in Claire Bowern's Master List of Australian Languages, v1.2. Yuwaaliyaay XXX Pama-Nyungan Central NSW Yuwaalaraay kld Pama-Nyungan Central NSW Yuru XXX Pama-Nyungan Dyirbalic Yulparija XXX Pama-Nyungan Wati Yugul XXX Arnhem Marran Yugambal yub Pama-Nyungan Bandjalangic Yorta Yorta xyy ("yyo") Pama-Nyungan Yotayotic