April 28, 2010

Multilingual Australia

Australia is a very multilingual society. Of the languages other than English reported to be used at home, the most dominant languages are Italian (10.4%), Greek (8.0%), Cantonese (7.8%), Arabic (7.7%) and Mandarin (7.0%) (Australia Bureau of Statistics, 2006). In order the most frequent languages spoken are:
  • Italian
  • Greek 
  • Cantonese
  • Arabic
  • Mandarin
  • Vietnamese
  • Spanish
  • German
  • Hindi
  • Macedonian
  • Croatian
  • Australian Indigenous languages
  • Korean 
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Tagalog
  • Serbian
  • French
  • Indonesian
  • Filipino
  • Maltese
  • Russian
  • Dutch
  • Other Chinese languages
  • Japanese
  • Tamil
  • Sinhalese
  • Samoan
  • Portuguese
  • Khmer
  • Persian
  • Hungarian
  • Dari 
  • Other Iranic languages
  • Other languages