Languages of Australia: Difference between revisions

[[File:Australia 2021 English language spoken at home.png|thumb|Population who speaks only English at home in 2021]]

English was introduced into Australia on British settlement in 1788 and in the following decades gradually overtook Indigenous languages to become the majority language of Australia.<ref name=":20">{{Cite book |last=Leitner |first=Gerhard |title=Australia's Many Voices, Australian English the national language |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |year=2004 |isbn=3-11-018194-0 |location=Berlin and New York |pages=5–6}}</ref> Although English is not the official language of Australia in law, it is the ''[[de facto]]'' official and national language.<ref name="language22"/><ref name=":24"/> It is the most widely spoken language in the country, and is used as the only language in the home by 72% of the population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Language spoken at home {{pipe}} Australia {{pipe}} Community profile |url=https://profile.id.com.au/australia/language}}</ref> The increase in the migrant population over the past decade has seen a decline in the number of people speaking only English at home.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Australia 2021 census community profiles, time series profile |url=https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/community-profiles/2021/AUS |access-date=8 May 2023 |website=Australian Bureau of Statistics}}</ref>

|+Percentage of population speaking only English at home: 2011, 2016 and 2021

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