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South Australian English is the variety of English spoken in the Australian state of South Australia. As with the other regional varieties within Australian English, these have distinctive vocabularies. To a lesser degree, there are also some differences in phonology (pronunciation).
South Australian Pidgin English developed around 1820 from the population of Kangaroo Island. At this time Kangaroo Island was a major whaling and sealing center populated by 50 European and Austronesian male whalers and sealers and roughly 100 Aboriginal wives who were mostly kidnapped from Tasmania, Port Lincoln, the Adelaide plains, and the mainland opposite Kangaroo Island.
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometres (380,048 sq mi), [6] it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people. [3]
The dialects of English spoken in the eastern states, where the majority of the population lives, differ somewhat to those spoken in South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Another notable dialect is Torres Strait English , spoken by the inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands.
Australian English began to diverge from British and Hiberno-English after the First Fleet established the Colony of New South Wales in 1788. Australian English arose from a dialectal melting pot created by the intermingling of early settlers who were from a variety of dialectal regions of Great Britain and Ireland, [6] though its most ...
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The town of Hahndorf, with its strong German history and population, reflects South Australia's early European immigration trends. South Australia (state of Australia) has a variety of wine-producing regions, including the popular tourist destination Barossa Valley. A majority of the population is concentrated around the Adelaide metropolitan area.
The South Australia Act 1834 described the land as "waste" and "uninhabited", [1] but unlike other colonies in Australia, the British settlement of South Australia did not assume the principle of terra nullius (Latin for nobody's land) when the colonists originally arrived.