Australian English
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Australian English is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language and de facto national language. While Australia has no official language, En
The First Fleet, which brought the English language to Australia
The Australian gold rushes saw many external influences on the language.
Bush poets such as Banjo Paterson captured the Australian vocabulary of the 19th century in their bush ballads.
English language
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English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The language is named after the Angles, one
Manuscript (written in uncial script) of Beowulf, an epic poem composed in Old English between 975 and 1025.The poem begins: Hƿæt ƿē Gārde / na ingēar dagum þēod cyninga / þrym ge frunon ... [Listen! We have heard of the glory in bygone days of the folk-kings of the spear-Danes ...]
