Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal English
Native toAustralia
RegionOceania
Early forms
Latin (English alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologabor1240  code abandoned, but bibliography retained
AIATSIS[1]P4

Australian Aboriginal English (AAE or AbE) is a set of dialects of the English language used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander) population as a result of the colonisation of Australia.[2] It is made up of a number of varieties which developed differently in different parts of Australia, and grammar and pronunciation differs from that of standard Australian English, along a continuum. Some of its words have also been adopted into standard or colloquial Australian English.

  1. ^ P4 Australian Aboriginal English at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Davis, Sharon (2022). "Aboriginal English".

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