Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal English
Australian Aboriginal English
Region	Australia
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Australian English Australian Aboriginal English; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Old English Middle English Early Modern English Modern English 18th century British and Hiberno-English ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	abor1240 code abandoned, but bibliography retained
AIATSIS	P4

Australian Aboriginal English (AAE or AbE) is a cover term used for the complex, rule-governed varieties of English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander) population as a result of colonisation. 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.

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