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Australia as a Multilingual Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Anne Pauwels
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For the benefit of readers unfamiliar with Australia's multilingual situation, the following statistics on language are provided, all derived from the 1976 Australian Census, the most recent one to provide detailed information on language use.l

A wealth of languages is represented in Australia: depending on what is considered a language and what a dialect, the number of languages present in Australia is estimated at around 150 for the Aboriginal languages (100 of which are threatened by extinction) and between 75 and 100 for the immigrant languages.

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Bilingual Communities: Linguistic Minorities and Their Verbal Repertoires
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 6 , March 1985 , pp. 78 - 99
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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