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
Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
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:
