Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal English
Native to	Australia
Region	Oceania
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Australian English Australian Aboriginal English
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Proto-West Germanic Proto-English Old English Middle English Early Modern English 18th century British English & Hiberno-English
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	abor1240  code abandoned, but bibliography retained
AIATSIS	P4

Australian Aboriginal English (AAE or AbE) is a set of dialects of the English language used by a large section of the Aboriginal Australian population as a result of the British colonisation of Australia. It is made up of a number of varieties which developed differently in different parts of Australia, and grammar and pronunciation differs from that of standard Australian English, along a continuum. Some of its words have also been adopted into standard or colloquial Australian English.