Kriol, Yumplatok and Aboriginal English: Australia’s “contact languages”
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2021-10-19
Summary:
A dialect of its own The health, education and employment inequalities experienced by Indigenous Australians sometimes appear intractable, as does their over-representation in the prison system. One way to address these problems, linguists have discovered, is to tackle communication issues. For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, standard Australian English is their second language. Their …
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