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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.
It is the country's common language and de facto national language; while Australia has no official language, English is the first language of the majority of the population, and has been entrenched as the de facto national language since British settlement, being the only language spoken in the home for 72% of Australians. [5]
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 ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Australia: 226 93 319 4.49 22,693,732 72,504 10
Although Australia has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language. Australian English is a major variety of the language that is immediately distinguishable from British, American, and other national dialects by virtue of its unique accents, pronunciations, idioms and vocabulary, although ...
[373] [374] Australian English is a major variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon, [375] and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling. [376] General Australian serves as the standard dialect. [377] The Australian sign language known as Auslan was used at home by 16,242 people at the time of ...
Pages in category "Languages of Australia" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.