What language do Australians speak?
by 
donniegirl
ANSWERS: 32
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Umm lets see. How about "Didgeridoo" I am just joking people.
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Australians speak another version of enlgish just a few ajustments like american english
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Im australian and that is just a stupid american question. we speak english just a slanger version
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Australians speak English. Did you never heard Steve Irwin speak?
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B.H. Wilson
Crikey!
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English, duh.
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yep english. At most book stores you can find a book which lists the different uses of words and terms that are usually found in Australia.
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we speak english stupid.
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Wanna learn about "true" australian? Check here: https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=resize+toolbar&app=firefox. BTW, to all of you calling this asker "stupid": check her profile, then come back and tell us all how sheepish you feel.
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Hard to answer this question. Do you mean what is the official language of australia? cause most people i know in aus, me included hav learnt a second language. el rei y la reina es canto in la bano! (spanish)
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Waht about the aboriginal people of Australia? Are they not true Australians?
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My God - you mean Aussies have learnt to speak. They will be reading and writing next!
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english. we do have our own slang though, like every other country. we are apart of the commonwealth family.
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Australian
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The official language is English, with an australian dialectical twist, but, as Thomas_Edison pointed out above, many many people have a second, unofficial language. Out of 20 million people, there are are over 1 million of Italian descent, with about 400 000 competent in Italian or a dialect, similar numbers of Greeks, Spanish next (mostly Latin America), Chinese, Vietnamese, Maltese (we have one of the largest Maltese communities in the world), ARabic and various Asian languages (inc Lao, Khmer, Indonesian, Filipino, Thai).The native ABoriginals number about 1 million, of whom several hundred thousand speak their tribal languages almost exclusively or as a first language. That makes us pretty multicultural. I myself speak 4 languages fluently (english, Italian, Indonesian and German) with some competency in half a dozen others. My husband speaks three languages (English, Italian, German) and our daughters are bilingual Italian/English. Our neighbour on the right is Chilean, on the left is Fijian Indian. Across the road are Vietnamese and more Fijian Indians. Down there road there are Somalians and Sudanese.
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we speak english with an Aussie accent !
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they speek english mostly but few speek chinese and italian so if you speek english you won't have to learn a new language email me at hateinocence@yahoo.com if you have any more questions.
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Cobber
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Creole (Kriol)
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English G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie.
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Much like america they speak all sorts of languages, but primarily english
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Strine. An obscure dialect alleged to be derived from English. Check Amazon for "Let Stalk Strine",
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Although Australia has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language. Australian English has its own distinctive accent and vocabulary. The next most common languages spoken at home are Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%), and Greek (1.4%). A considerable proportion of first- and second-generation migrants are bilingual. It is believed that there were between 200 and 300 Australian Aboriginal languages at the time of first European contact. Only about 70 of these languages have survived and all but 20 of these are now endangered. An indigenous language remains the main language for about 50,000 (0.25%) people. Australia has a sign language known as Auslan, which is the main language of about 6,500 deaf people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_languages
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Hebrew!
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English is the official language of Australia and it is spoken with the British cockney drawl and understood by most of the people. The Aborigines who were the original inhabitants continue to speak their own language dialects .
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English. Every country which uses English has its own take of the language. I am an American living in the Philippines and I don't understand some of the Filipinos' "American" English.
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Australian English.
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Many abo languages All the languages of the world are represented in the people of Australia.
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As far as I know, they speak English. I'm sure the indigenous people had their own language though.
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We speak English but are a very multicultural society. The Aboriginal's have various different dialects, more than I could imagine.
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English but with an AWESOME accent! I could listen to them talk for hours on end!!! +5
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We speak english, have kangaroos as pets and they roam the streets!!
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English is the major, but you may argue that our slang is not http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
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