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Australian English and Torres Strait English

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Australian English and Torres Strait English

Australian English vs. Torres Strait English

Australian English (AuE, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia. Torres Strait English (called by its speakers T.I. English) is a dialect of the English language spoken by the people of various backgrounds (indigenous Torres Strait, Malay, Filipino, European, Japanese, etc.) born and raised on Thursday Island and neighbouring islands in Torres Strait, North Queensland, Australia.

Similarities between Australian English and Torres Strait English

Australian English and Torres Strait English have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Australia, English language, Queensland, Rhoticity in English, Torres Strait Creole.

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Rhoticity in English

Rhoticity in English refers to English speakers' pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant, and is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified.

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Torres Strait Creole

Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin, Yumplatok, Torres Strait Brokan/Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole, Papuan Pidgin English, Broken English, Brokan/Broken, Blaikman, Big Thap) is an English-based creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia), Northern Cape York and South-Western Coastal Papua.

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Australian English and Torres Strait English Comparison

Australian English has 216 relations, while Torres Strait English has 8. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 2.23% = 5 / (216 + 8).

References

This article shows the relationship between Australian English and Torres Strait English. To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit:

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