Although Australia has no official language, it is largely monoglottismmonolingual with English languageEnglish being the de facto national language. Australian English has its own distinctive accent and vocabulary. According to the 2001 census, English is the only language spoken in the home for around 80% of the population. The next most common languages spoken at home are Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%), Vietnamese (1.7%) and Greek (1.4%).

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpprop:abstract
  • Although Australia has no official language, it is largely monoglottismmonolingual with English languageEnglish being the de facto national language. Australian English has its own distinctive accent and vocabulary. According to the 2001 census, English is the only language spoken in the home for around 80% of the population. The next most common languages spoken at home are Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%), Vietnamese (1.7%) and Greek (1.4%). A considerable proportion of first- and second-generation migrants are bilingual. It is believed that there were between 200 and 300 Australian Aboriginal languages at the time of first European contact. Only about 70 of these languages have survived and all but 20 of these are now endangered. An indigenous language remains the main language for about 50,000 (0.25%) people. Australia has a sign language known as Auslan, which is the main language of about 6,500 deaf people.
dbpprop:country
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:indigenous
dbpprop:keyboard
dbpprop:main
dbpprop:minority
dbpprop:official
  • no official
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:sign
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdfs:comment
  • Although Australia has no official language, it is largely monoglottismmonolingual with English languageEnglish being the de facto national language. Australian English has its own distinctive accent and vocabulary. According to the 2001 census, English is the only language spoken in the home for around 80% of the population. The next most common languages spoken at home are Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%), Vietnamese (1.7%) and Greek (1.4%).
rdfs:label
  • Languages of Australia
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:page
is dbpprop:languages of
is dbpprop:redirect of