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Watch the video and write down different ways the Australian language has been influenced. The Australian language and accent are the result of a fascinating interplay of influences, including Aboriginal languages, British colonization, immigration, geographical isolation, and a unique slang and idioms culture. Learning about these influences can help you better understand and appreciate the rich language of this fantastic country. GEOGRAPHY
A lot of people think Australian English is basically Cockney when in fact the London, or East End of London, accent is just one of the components. In early settlement, people came from all over the UK and the British Isles - Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Midlands - and in the
1780s they would have had enormous difficulty understanding each other. Britain at the time was not very mobile and people would grow up and live and work in the same place. They spoke regional dialects and had their own pronunciations, so someone from Cornwall would have had
Over the course of that first wave of settlers and convicts, their kids made more of that accommodation and by the third generation you’ve got kids who are all sounding pretty much the same. This is what linguists call 'levelling'.
Around the 1820s we have the emergence of something like an Australian-English accent. It probably would have been more English than our accent now but it has continued to evolve. What are some of the misconceptions about the Australian accent?
There is more than one Australian accent and it could be the Indigenous Australian accent or the ethnic Australian accent you hear in Sydney’s western suburbs. The accent is far broader than typically thought to be the case. What makes the Australian accent unique?
There are a whole bunch of things. The accent uses a lot of vowel sounds, probably the largest number of vowel sounds in any version of English around the world. There’s also that duration in the Australian accent where we drag them out at the end of the word, for example, cry might sound like ‘cryyy’ and boy might sound like ‘boyyy’. That’s pretty unique to Australian English.
The Australian accent also has very pronounced T’s at the beginning of words but then a flapping T in the middle of a word, so cattle sounds like ‘caddle’. While a number of these markers are not individually unique to Australian English, they are still distinctive of Australian English.
Where does some of the lingo like G'day and arvo come from? I suspect it’s just a cultural thing where we tend to shorten or lengthen things for semi-comical purposes. It is a marker of the informality of the Australian accent.
softened middle T’s and softened pronunciation of the R at the end of the word. If you then go to what’s known as the broad accent, there are much longer vowel sounds. This is what we think of as the stereotypical regional accent.
Will the accent continue to evolve in the future? It is always evolving and it will definitely continue to evolve. It’s a living thing and it responds to environment and inputs and it is increasingly ingesting the speech and patterns of English speakers from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Africa. Those patterns of speech will
