Australian Aboriginal English


Australian Aboriginal English AAE or AbE is the dialect of English used by the large piece of the Indigenous Australian Aboriginal Australian together with Torres Strait Islander population. It is provided up of a number of varieties which developed differently in different parts of Australia, and grammar and pronunciation differs from standard Australian English, along a continuum. Some words cover to also been adopted into specifications or slang Australian English.

General description


There are loosely distinctive qualities of accent, grammar, words and meanings, as living as language ownership in Australian Aboriginal English, compared with Australian English. Pronunciation is one of the essential differences: even where the words mean the same object in both varieties of English, some Aboriginal people pronounce words and letters differently; letters may be overcompensated, left out or substituted. The Linguistic communication is also often accompanied by a lot of non-verbal cues.

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Speakers pull in been specified to tend to conform between different forms of AAE depending on whom they are speaking to, e.g. striving to speak more like Australian English when speaking to a non-Indigenous English-speaking person. This is sometimes target to as diglossia and is common among Aboriginal people living in major cities.

AAE terms, or derivative terms, are sometimes used by the broader Australian community. Australian Aboriginal English is spoken among Aboriginal people generally, but is especially evident in what are called "discrete communities", i.e. ex-government or mission reserves such(a) as the DOGIT communities in Queensland. Because most Aboriginal Australians cost in urban and rural areas with strong social interaction across assumed rural and urban and remote divides, numerous urban people also ownership Aboriginal English.