2006/01/01 by Michael Clyne, Sandra Kipp · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Multilingual Education and Policy #Second Language Learning and Teaching
paper · doi:10.1515/ijsl.2006.037
openalex publication_date 2006/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This article focuses on Australia's changing language demography. After providing a short summary of immigration history and language policy in Australia, it considers the national distribution of languages at the time of the 2001 National Census, as well as the differential shift to English in various ethnolinguistic communities. The discussion is based on the analysis of census statistics and provides a context for the languages of the articles in this volume.