Australian English Variations Flashcards
1
Q
-“10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own”
-Celeste Louro/Glenys Collard, The Conversation
-June 2022
-“Unna”
-“Deadly”
-“Yarning”
A
-Aboriginal Australians have added elements of Aborignal languages to traditional Aboriginal English in order to communicate their identity of an Aboriginal person as well as maintain elements of their own language in the English language
-“[Aboriginal English] is the first and only language spoken by many Aboriginal children” (Louro, Linguist)