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This was the first explicit language policy in Australia and combined a focus on multicultural rights (through support of community languages, interpreting and translating and related issues), with social cohesion (support for English and English literacy, and inter-ethnic education), Indigenous rights (through diverse First Nations languages ...
List of English words of Hebrew origin; List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin; List of English words of Hungarian origin; List of English words of Indian origin; List of English words of Indonesian origin, including from Javanese, Malay (Sumatran) Sundanese, Papuan (West Papua), Balinese, Dayak and other local languages in Indonesia
The vocabulary of Australia is drawn from many sources, including various dialects of British English as well as Gaelic languages, some Indigenous Australian languages, and Polynesian languages. [2] One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892.
English is the majority language of Australia today. Although English has no official legal status, it is the de facto official and national language. [2] [3] Australian English is a major variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon, [4] and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling. [5]
Australia is the world's 21st-largest exporter and 24th-largest importer. [277] [278] China is Australia's largest trading partner by a wide margin, accounting for roughly 40% of the country's exports and 17.6% of its imports. [279] Other major export markets include Japan, the United States, and South Korea. [280]
Off the north-eastern coast of Australia is the world's largest coral reef complex, the Great Barrier Reef. The large and mountainous island of Tasmania, also a State of Australia, lies south of the south-eastern corner of the Australian mainland. It receives abundant rainfall, and has highly fertile soils particularly in comparison to the ...
The ethnocultural dialects are diverse accents in Australian English that are spoken by the minority groups, which are of non-English speaking background. [13] A massive immigration from Asia has made a large increase in diversity and the will for people to show their cultural identity within the Australian context. [ 14 ]
Australia is also a centre of diversity for the Proteaceae, with woody, well-known genera such as Banksia, Dryandra, Grevillea, Hakea, the waratah and Australia's only commercial native food crop, the macadamia. Australia also has representatives of all three legume subfamilies. Caesalpinioideae is notably represented by Cassia trees.