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Italo-Australian dialect
Native to	Australia
Ethnicity	Italian Australians
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italo-Romance Italian Italo-Australian dialect
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Tuscan Florentine
Writing system	Italian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	it-AU
People with Italian ancestry as a percentage of the population in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, as of the 2011 census.

Italo-Australian is an Australian-based dialect of Italian that is spoken by Australians of Italian descent.

Characteristics

The exact number of speakers is unknown, but it is highly speculated that the language is mainly spoken by the younger generations, passed on by the elder ancestors, who created the language. Some researchers think that the dialect might have been spoken by nearly 900,000 Italian Australians in 2012.

Origin

The foundation of this dialect is modern Italian, which was brought to Australia following the Italian diaspora in the post World War I era. It wasn't until the years after the second diaspora after World War II that the dialect came into note.

The language was simply created with modern Italian words being influenced by the vocabulary of the English language, to create Italian/English words. Some words follow the rules of Italian spelling, changing to an English one only with a few character changes to make it sound Italian. Italian linguist Tullio De Mauro has noted the dialect in his famous book 'Storia Della Lingua' as "developing dialect that is still enduring the modern influences of English".

De Mauro also claims the language is growing with the vocabulary being passed onto the younger generations of Italian Australians.

Example words

See also

• Italian Australians
• Languages of Australia
• Itanglese
• Siculish

References

1. Italian Australian dialect (in Italian)
2. Tullio De Mauro. "Storia Della Lingua Italiana" (p.79)
3. "Identity". Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
4. Tullio De Mauro. "Storia Della Lingua Italiana" (p.102)
5. The final u is typical in the Sicilian language in comparison with the Italian o

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