Editing Regional accents of English (section)

===Australia===
{{Main|Australian English}}

Australian English is relatively homogeneous when compared to [[British English|British]] and [[American English|American]] English. There is some regional variation between the [[States and territories of Australia|states]], particularly in regard to [[South Australia]], [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]], [[Queensland]], [[Northern Territory]] and [[Western Australia]].

Three main varieties of Australian English are spoken according to linguists: ''[[Strine|Broad Australian]]'', ''[[General Australian]]'' and ''[[Australian English#Sociocultural variation|Cultivated Australian]]''.<ref name="mannell"/> They are part of a continuum, reflecting variations in accent. They can, but do not always, reflect the [[social class]], education, and urban or rural background of the speaker.<ref name="macquarie"/>

* [[Australian Aboriginal English]] refers to the various varieties of the English language used by Indigenous Australians. These varieties, which developed differently in different parts of Australia, vary along a continuum, from forms close to General Australian to more nonstandard forms. There are distinctive features of accent, grammar, words, and meanings, as well as language use.
* The furthest extent of the Aboriginal dialect is [[Australian Kriol]] language, which is not [[mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]] with General Australian English.
* On the [[Torres Strait Islands]], a distinctive dialect known as [[Torres Strait English]] is spoken.
* In Australian English, pronunciations vary regionally according to the type of vowel that occurs before the sounds {{IPAc-en|n|d}}, {{IPAc-en|n|s}}, {{IPAc-en|n|t}}, {{IPAc-en|n|tʃ}}, and {{IPAc-en|m|p}}. In words like "chance", "plant", "branch", "sample", and "demand", the vast majority of Australians use the short /æ/ vowel from the word "cat". In [[South Australian English]], there is a high proportion of people who use the broad /aː/ vowel from the word "cart" in these words.
* Centring [[diphthong]]s, which are the vowels that occur in words like "ear", "beard", "air", and "sheer". In [[Western Australian English]], there is a tendency for centring diphthongs to be pronounced as full diphthongs. Those in the eastern states will tend to pronounce "fear" and "sheer" without any jaw movement, while the westerners would pronounce them like "fia" and "shia", respectively, which slightly resembles [[South African English]] but in a dialect different from [[New Zealand English]].<ref name="ozvoices"/>