Australian Aboriginal English | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | Oceania |
Early forms | |
Latin (English alphabet) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | abor1240 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.