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South Australian English is the collective name given to the varieties of English spoken in the Australian State of South Australia. As with the other regional varieties within Australian English, these have distinctive vocabularies. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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It is sometimes claimed that regional variations in pronunciation and accent of Australian English exist, but if present at all they are very small compared to those of British and American English – sufficiently so that linguists are divided on the question. ...
Australian English (AuE) is the form of the English language used in Australia. ...
A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. ...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Macquarie Dictionary state that there are three localised, regional varieties of English in South Australia: Adelaide English, Eyre and Yorke Peninsula English and Northern South Australia English. While there are many commonalities, each has its own variations in vocabulary.[1] The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australias national public broadcaster. ...
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While some of the words attributed to South Australians are used elsewhere in Australia, many genuine regional words are used throughout the state. Some of these are German in origin, reflecting the origins of many early settlers. Such was the concentration of German speakers in and around the Barossa Valley, it has been suggested they spoke their own dialect of German, known as "Barossa Deutsch". The influence of South Australia's German heritage is evidenced by the adoption into the dialect of certain German or German-influenced vocabulary. One such local word with German origins is "butcher", the name given to a 200 ml (7 fl.oz.) beer glass, which is believed to be derived from the German becher, meaning a cup or mug.[2] A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus region, ca. ...
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Barossa Deutsch refers to a hybrid dialect of German, spoken in and around the Barossa Valley in South Australia. ...
The litre or liter (U.S. spelling, see spelling differences) is a unit of volume. ...
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Cornish miners represented another significant wave of early immigrants, and they contributed Cornish language words, such as wheal (mine), which is preserved in many place names. Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ...
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South Australian dialects also preserve other British English usages which do not occur elsewhere in Australia: for example, farmers use reap and reaping, as well as "harvest" and "harvesting".
It is sometimes claimed that South Australians have a distinct regional accent. One way in which this is manifested is the phenomenon known as the "dark-l", such that the "l" is vocalised; for example, "milk" sounds like "miwk" and "hill" sounds like "hiw".[3] A back allophone of /ʉː/, [ʊː] — pronouncing "pool" as a longer form of "pull" — is occasionally attributed purely to South Australians, but is widespread in other regions of Australia. In a similar vein, Cultivated Australian English accents, such as that of Alexander Downer, are mistakenly attributed to South Australians in general. However such speech patterns are a sociolect, and are used by some people in all parts of Australia. In linguistics, an accent is a pronunciation characteristic of a particular group of people relative to another group. ...
A dark l is a common way of referring to a velarised alveolar lateral approximant. ...
In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar phones that belong to the same phoneme. ...
Most linguists consider there to be three main varieties of Australian English (AusE). ...
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In linguistics, a sociolect is the language spoken by a social group, social class or subculture. ...
The following statistical observations may also be made about South Australian speech:
- The phoneme /ʊ/ is often substantially fronted in certain phonological environments (e.g. before "d", as in should, good, etc), whereas this fronting is generally less substantial in other parts of the country.
- South Australians are more likely than people from Sydney or Melbourne to pronounce "air" (and other occurrences of the same phoneme) as a centering diphthong rather than a monophthong.
- There is a tendency among many Australians to convert a schwa that occurs at the end of a phrase to a more open vowel, but this tendency is less common in South Australia than in the east.
- For some Australians, holy is homomorphic with wholly and does not rhyme with lowly, whereas for others, holy rhymes with lowly and is not homomorphic with wholly. Among other words affected by the same underlying distinction are solo, Polish and Cola. The rhyming of "holy" with "lowly" may be more common in South Australia than in the eastern states.
- The vowel sound in words such as 'chance', 'plant', 'grant' etc. tend to be pronounced with a long /ɑ/ rather than /æ/.
References
- ^ ABC Wordmap
- ^ ABC Radio National, Lingua Franca, 28/02/2004, "South Australian Words"
- ^ Dorothy Jauncey, Bardi Grubs and Frog Cakes — South Australian Words, Oxford University Press (2004) ISBN 0-19-551770-9
See also Australian English (AuE) is the form of the English language used in Australia. ...
It is sometimes claimed that regional variations in pronunciation and accent of Australian English exist, but if present at all they are very small compared to those of British and American English – sufficiently so that linguists are divided on the question. ...
According to stereotype, spoken Australian English is thought to be highly colloquial, possibly more so than other spoken variants. ...
Australian English is a non-rhotic variety of English spoken by most native-born Australians. ...
West Australian English, or Western Australian English, is the collective name given to the variety or varieties of English spoken in the Australian state of Western Australia (WA). ...
External links - "Dorothy Jauncey, 2004, "South Australia—'Kind of Different'?"
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