Where Did The Australian Accent Come From?
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Australia Timeline: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia...
Where Did the Australian Accent Come From?: www.eurocentres.com/blog/wher...
The story behind Australian English: www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-1...
Facts about the Australian accent: www.abc.net.au/education/lear...
So where did the Aussie accent really come from?: blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/...
The First Fleet: www.nationalgeographic.org/th...
Dialect Levelling: aggslanguage.wordpress.com/20...
Received Pronunciation: www.bl.uk/british-accents-and...
As I mentioned last week, I am officially expanding Name Explain to cover more than names. This video is an example of some of the wider topics I shall be covering on the channel, let me know what you think.
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Awesome Vidoe Patrick! You do one an American Accent next.
Names are cool but I'm a total sucker for languages and dialects of any kind so I'm totally on board with that.
You left out the Irish influence in the accent
I stumbled across a documentary a few years ago on the 'origins of the gay accent" but never got to finish the doco. It's an interesting one as it seems to be a universal accent amongst alot of gay men but non existent in gay women. No clue if that'd be of interest or if it passes as an acceptable topic these days either though 🤔
I’m actually really good at doing an Aussie accent, I think that’s down to the fact I live here
Skills!
Better put it on your CV 😁
@@caroliner2029 will do
Same mate
Lol
Tbh imma a country Aussie kid and i moved to the city and a lot of the city the kids speak normal compared to be me and I got a strong accent.
In fact, the Aussie accent is entirely caused by eating Vegemite. I stopped eating it for more than 1 day, and I woke up sounding like the Queen. I had to have an infusion straight into my veins. Scary times.
Loved the comment
An alternative solution that works is to eat a Big Mac.
@PatchesRips I (an American) have tried both Vegemite and Marmite. I'm pretty sure it's the most horrendous thing I've ever eaten. But I love the fact that Aussies love it.
Sorry to hear mate. You'll be pleased to know Vegemite will ship to you anywhere in the world.
It's true. I eat only a little vegemite, about a jar a week, and have a cockney accent.
Very proud to have come from the nation that brought you the linguistic gem that is "yeah, nah".
Yeah, nah, yeah.
I love contradictory linguistic stuff, the danish for bye is hej hej which means hi hi
@@theblackrose3130 Like Australians calling mates ‘c&nts’ and who they think are ‘c&nts’, mate 😂
Yeah nah mate.
We say that in England aswell
As an aussie, I disagree with us only having three accents. We also have Bogan and stoner.
Don't forget eshays
@@aldusty7373 WTF is 'eshay'?
You forgot WOG as well!
@@DMSProduktions It's another term for lad
@@aldusty7373 WHERE from? I've never heard of it before!
What! wait, we Aussies to not have accents, everyone else does.Thumbs up mate.
🤣🤣🤣
Hey are accents in America are regional and some base on class or status. Btw you never tell if you have an accent until you find somebody with one.
Been down under nearly 4yrs ago. As an RP speaker, I LOVE your accent. I ended up adopted much of it at the end of my 3 months there
I didn’t think the Australian accent was strong.
Wait!,what ?, you say what? before wait???✌🏼👌🏼
Sometimes I think Australia doesn't have much regional variation, then I hear someone from South Australia speak
Absolutely!
We're close to melbournites, but we find people from sydney bizzare
South Aussies have the higher class Aussie accent lol
@@sweetypie9711 I’d have to agree! “Cahstle”, “dahnce” etc sound very upper-crust. And quite different to the QLD drawl
SA was started by English and Germans whereas most of the country was populated by Irish.
“Australian is the purest language”
Aussies: Skaarnoncaarnt?
I like that
Australia is rubbish in every way.
Justbludginatmaccas
@@judis6224 yeah nah watevayasaycarnt
@@judis6224 whadayatalkinabeet
As a native Australian I'll add that Australians usually don't speak just one variation of Australian English. Instead they will often modulate their position on the Broad-General-Cultivated spectrum to suit the situation. Individuals may not use the entire range, but they definitely have a range.
Another thing I will add is that I have always believed that Aboriginal Australians have influenced our accent to a significant degree. It is something I believed even before I started looking at Linguistics. In particular the way Aboriginal Australians use vowel sounds (disclaimer: there are well over a hundred different Aboriginal languages and language groups in Australia. I'm generalising hugely.) in a long, flat way have influenced the accent.
100 percent.
I was hoping for this comment. I grew up in Central Australia and there are absolutely strong influences of Aboriginal languages, creoles and pidgins in that area. My partner laughs at me because I fall back into that speech when I talk to my family back home. 😜
You’re absolutely right.
@The505Guys are you Australian? And if so Have you ever been to a regional town? I’m not trying to be disrespectful, but I feel like if you had, it would be so blatantly obvious to you.
@The505Guys while yes, there was a fair bit of separatism legally in Australia for aboriginal people up until 1967, in regional areas that separatism didn’t extend to socialisation through work or in communities. Aboriginal Australians still worked alongside people like station owners, as well as interacting in smaller towns. Aboriginal people learned English but still spoke with their own accent. So, due to the human penchant for taking on traits of accents, probably as a way to ingratiate oneself to a particular group, is it surprising that there’s some influence of the indigenous English accent on the wider population in those areas?
There’s definitely regional differences around Australia. I’m from Adelaide, and when I go to Melbourne I hear a difference. When I go to Brisbane I really hear a difference!
We here in Adelaide have more of a polite sounding accent than the other states. It could be because we were never a convict colony.
The further both you go the more it changes. I’ve had people in other parts of the country say I have a Central Queensland accent, and they’re right
There’s a Wikipedia article that shows how the accent varies from city to city, particularly with words like graph, dance, castle, etc.
The further nor the higher the pitch and the speed picks up as well. I just assume the people north of cairns have all been castrated as kids.
100% correct, the Adelaide accent is different from the east coast accent, my grandmother came from there and I knew it to be different to my mum's accent, and when the Radelaide Reles came up to Brizzy to see us you could hear the difference, even my ex brother in law also from Adelaide sounded different to the rest us.
I think its also to do with that state being settled more by Germans than British too.
fun fact: britain sent more convicts to both the USA and india than it did australia
But which population had the greatest percentage of British prisoners at the time?
@Barry O'Connor The worst thing is your ancestor most likely only stole a loaf of bread
@@jourdanwolf they criminalised being poor
@@goosehonkernot5201 hippies
Britain never sent any convicts to Australia.
“ Sweet as, Bro” is a modern Maori, (New Zealand, saying., here in Australia) The Older Australian saying is “beaut”. Or ...“ that’s a ripper” The modern Australian Aboriginal saying is “ deadly”
“G’ day Mate” and “She’ll be right” is Australian.
Box o birds
nah yeah not bad ay
yeah nah that's all right ay
nah yeah that's decent i reckon
Need to mention because everyone that isn’t Australian can’t say g’day properly
They say b day or d day it’s pronounced ga as in queens famous song and day together like 1 word gaday
@@blink1821986 yeah it’s really annoying when people say it like “gee-day” lol
Nah, the Kiwis say, "swat uz bra!" Uuh truuue!🙃
As a South Aussie, I can confirm that there are regional variations. The most notable differences being in the pronunciation of words like Dance or Graph. Also, the Queenslander pronunciation of pool or school is a head scratcher.
Yeah South Aussies have more of a Anglo-german/proper accent. Nsw accent is weird and over mumbled. Australian Ethnic accents also are very varied. I have a slavic Australian accent - i pronounce r's and h's weirdly.
@@samvodopianov9399 Why do you think the NSW accent is weird? I'm from Sydney, so I don't notice it at all.
SA accent is damn near a Kiwi accent...
yep, sa is the best accent for sure.
I have found that accents all over Australia are exactly the same
As an American, and a Southern American, I love hearing the Aussies talk. There are a lot of similarities with our accent. My granddaughter is going to have an Aussie accent if she keeps watching ‘Bluey’!
The southern American accent during the civil war sounded very English at the time. I was listening to a recording of an old southern soldier, quite interesting.
Bluey is such a wonderful show, I hope you're still enjoying it. I'd heard that a lot of young kids were picking Australianisms and lingo from watching it. Thank God they didn't dub the show.
Southern American as in Latin America or the South of the U.S?
Southern accent is more like 19th century traditional england accent
@@ravioliravioliravi “Southern” refers to a North American living in the South E.g. Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana etc.
The North America Continent stops at Panama and South America starts with Columbia.
My uncle and his family moved from Canada to Australia when his daughters were 4, 8, and 12. A couple years later they came back to visit and it was interesting talking to the kids because they all had slightly different accents. The oldest had a fully Canadian accent, the middle had a little of both, and the youngest had a fully Australian one
Canadian and Australian english are an interesting comparison. I think that we use a lot of the same sounds, but we emphasise different parts of words and sentences.
No real surprises there. Accent tends to become fixed in the pre-teen years.
Kids learn to speak from their peers, not their parents.
Hehe
@@FreeManFreeThought Canadian accent has more of an American accent slightly Franch Canadian spin.
Yeah, I met a girl in Australia with an almost-Canadian accent, her mom was Canadian and she picked it up. Funny thing, I'm a Canadian living in Australia for the last 3 years, and I talk a lot with my friends & family back home, and I realised the other day that while I not longer really notice the Aussie accent, I also still don't notice the Canadian accent - so the times I've run into other Canadians here, I don't notice they have an accent and are also from Canada 😅 like both accents sound equally normal to me now.
I’ve always thought you could hear the influence of indigenous language on the Australian accent. Similar to impact of Maori on the Kiwi accent. I’ve also thought indigenous humour ... very cheeky and mocking of pretension ... has influenced mainstream Australian humour.
Kacau balau,not all NZ spear like the horis,or try to sound like the Australians,that are riddled with the Indian variant.
@@judis6224 que?
Kacau balau,what is your question?or don't waste my time.
Spear? Horis? Indian variant? What are you trying to say?
Not all nzers speak like the horis or like them,trying to take over,they could go back to Asia,Australia has the Indian variant,and this stupid bubble with NZ,nzers will get it,ardern brought in the vivid,friends with China,according to an American judge, American government knew about China lab making the virus to kill humans,now ardern is involved,and with families in NZ being ripped apart ilegaly,friends with UK,they do it,bent cops sent to NZ,bent NZ cops,judges,lawyers,etc, that's all about to stop.
There was also a major influence of the Irish accent of English on the Australian accent, probably because a lot of the convicts that were transported here were from Ireland. This was especially the case with Tasmania. The parents of our folk hero here in Victoria, Ned Kelly, were Irish and were originally transported to Tasmania.
omg i keep replying but yeh I said that to him above. that's a MASSIVE miss. Irish people were probably the biggest influence on Aussie culture after the vomity Poms
Very true!!
Tasmania actually got the fewest Irish convicts compared to the numbers sent to NSW. If you read Robert Hughes 'The Fatal Shore' this is pointed out.
@@kikijayquinnSomeone’s a salty convict
As an aussie resident, I can tell you i've been waiting for this one
Crikey struth
sup aussie, as an american, what is the best accent you've heard?
@@kiernanfay8960 in aus or outside?
@@MakhalanyaneMotaung out
@@kiernanfay8960 in that case i'd probably say the bermudian accent. it's such a unique combination of pronunciations. there's vids on yt if you get the chance
My favorite Aussie accent is the one they speak in New Zealand.
[Ducks out of way of Kiwi punches.]
The utter disrespect hahahaha
Love it
@The21stCenturyguy it's a "fresh" accent we have here in NZ. Someone like me from the South Island sounds similar to aussies where as Taika has a Maori accent.
Hey, as long as you acknowledge that our accent is better, you can call it whatever you want Jaffa.
Don't group all nzers as the same,insult,as it is about saying they are speaking Scottish,rubbish.
As an Aussie I have definitely noticed every now and then (although it admittedly happens fairly infrequently) when a British actor pronounces a certain word or a certain vowel the exact same way an Australian would pronounce it.
It’s like ahhh that part of England must be where that part of our accent came from.
I'm from Surrey . We get mistaken for Aussies all the time..even by our fellow Poms !
In the 1800s the London and South East had a totally different accent to today . Cockney as we know it ,arrived later ...listen to certain class speakers in Essex,Kent and Suffolk in 1850 and they sound almost Australian... In fact Cockney , like Australian , came about because both Oz and London were a hub of folk with hundreds of accents coming together , then came the dialect levelling as mentioned to create a clearer sounding accent so everyone could understand...
I have a friend who was born within the sound of the Bow Bells. When he came to the States, few people could understand him. He worked hard to alter his accent. Now, when he goes home to London, people assume he's an Aussie. He's told me that he can walk into a pub in the district in which he was born, and be asked where he's from. He just replies, 'A few streets from here'.
It's Fascinating that where you live can alter your accent and thus it's not permanent but depending where you are in parts of the world.
That is if you stay there for long while
I was born in Mile End so my accent is the same as he’s original one.🍻
@@tonywilkinson6895 Mile End in Adelaide?
Having learned english in australia as a kid this was quite entertaining! Now i have a weird pseudo-aussie-american accent lmao
I think in America besides Southern and didn't regional dialects of English, we probably have the same Class related Accents. Matter of fact if you look at the Boston accent you could tell the Havard Ivy league RP English and then you have Raw general Boston accent. I guess in America it's more about Wealth and Prestige!! Actually, Prestige is the reason why RP Dialect or Polish English is taught and spoken within the Anglosphere.
Navadaaa
Very interesting, but some examples of these main Aussie accents and the differences between them as well as their "strange" vocabulary would have been really 'noice' 😅
@@Bjowolf2 Depends on region and class!! Btw words like Recken use in most countries in the Anglosphere would be considered part of the General English word.
@@rfe8nn2 Yes, I see - thank you.
I am not even from an English speaking country ( as a 1st language, I mean ), but I am still fascinated by all this - and by the deep similarities with our own languages here in Scandinavia that exist everywhere in basic English, since all these languages share common roots in Proto Germanic, just deriving from different subbranches ( North vs. West G. ) - and have since the break up influenced each others profoundly, so it's in many ways very much like we are already speaking an older basic Pseudo English around these shores 😉
D Skal vi [ve] gå [go] ud igen [ee-gain] for finde min fader [fa'th-er ! ] / [mo(u)'th-er ! ] / broder [bro(u)'th-er ! ] / søster [s'oe's-ter] / søn [s'oe'n] / datter / onkel / nevø [ne-v'oe']?
E Shall (OE sceal !) we go out again (for) to find my father / mother / brother / sister / son / daughter / uncle / nephew?
D Hvad vil du ( from "thu" ) synge for os [us] efter din [deen] fine [feen-e], nye [ne(w)-e] sang [sAng]?
"E" What will you (thou) sing for us after your (thine) fine, new song?
D Han kan se / høre [hoer-e] dem komme over til os - de [dee*] er [air] allerede her [heir] nær [nair] det [de'] lille hvide hus [hoos], så [so] vi kan byde dem velkommen nu [noo*].
E He can see / hear them coming (come) over to us - they ("dey") are already here near the (that) little white house, so we can bid them welcome now.
And so on and on 🤗
Check out Langfocus' brilliant and fascinating video "Viking Influence on the English Language" 😎
I'm a West Aussie, my accent is more RP than broad, and mixed with Swiss, German, and many other cultural influences I had as a child. Mixed accents in Australia are so common. I think it depends on cultural and family background though. People say my accent changes depending on which family member I am talking to. I know that no one really cares, but thought i'd share.
I'm another Australian - my accent changes depending on who I'm talking to as well, many Australians have a a chameleon accent...
We emigrated to WA (Lived in Forry) in the early 70's and came back in the early 80's (DOH !) with a very distinctive Oz accent.
This has long disappeared but reverts back when I talk to my Aussie mates on the phone.
I've been a Uk Truckie for 34 years and find that even my UK accent changes to where I'm delivering to.
Chuffin hellfire chook, I'm tellin yer it even confuses me any Rord !
Ooh Ar, It be all roight tho boi...
Haway Maaaan, Das champion
Heaps of accents up ear
It's not just the accents though. It's the alternate use of words.
eg: My use of "Heaps of accents" instead of "Lots of accents"
Local to where I live (Peterborough) we also say weird things like..
"Goo ask thet Young OLD boi"
I’m a west Aussie too. Born and bred. I’m 8th generation Aussie on mum’s side. But my dad emigrated from Guildford in England as a teenager. His southern English accent must have rubbed off on me, because people often say that I speak with an “educated British” accent. I’ve even been asked where in England I came from and how long I’ve been here.
~RP (cultivated) mixed with broad sounds like general
@@azzthund1500 that shows emotional intelligence. Clever man😁
As an Aussie, I approve this message.
Well done mate.
In Australia there are various "ethnic accents." A good example is the Italian-Australian accent which is quite distinct from the broader Aussie accent. Also, the original First Nation Australians have retained their accents despite colonisation.
Not only is there an Italian-Australian accent, there’s even an Australian-Italian dialect! Italian has been spoken by large numbers of people in Australia for over 100 years now, especially in Far North Queensland, Leichhardt (Sydney) and Carlton (Melbourne). The various Italian-speaking communities have gradually developed a distinct dialect, based mainly on Southern varieties of Italian, using words and phrases that have long since disappeared in Italy.
@@noelleggett5368 I also remember hearing that there's a region in Italy around the "boot heel" that still speaks an old dialect of Greek for the same reason, going back to the Roman times when it was a Greek colony.
@@LastElf42 Yes, there are about 20,000 native (first language) speakers of ‘Grico’ or ‘Grecanico’ in Salento (near the heel) and Calabria (near the toe). The language of Sicily is so heavily influenced by Greek and Arabic settlers and traders over the centuries, that it is not considered to be a dialect of Italian.
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Greek Australian accent too, I don't have it but my relos sure do
as an audio engineer, I was taught that RP was devised in order to prevent 'popping', into the early microphones, in fact people 'pop' more now, using improved and sophisticated microphones, precisely because they have not learnt a microphone friendly voice. The comparison could be made with 'photogenic', or as we call it, in the studio, 'mikegenic'!
That’s really interesting to know as when I lived in Thailand I lost my Australian accent after six months. I put it down to the need to speak clearly as a courtesy to people who weren’t fluent in English. I still recommend to migrants to listen to the sound of their own voice and make sure of its clarity. I’ve been told that the BBC mainly used RP speakers as newsreaders because it assured the highest degree of comprehension for radio and TV listeners alike. I used this listening technique myself when I practised my Thai vocabulary (with its five tones) over three years. Result: My accent in English became similar to RP, and by constant listening to detect the correct tone in Thai, I finally reached an accent that the locals assured me was just like theirs.
You've just brought back a memory of when I was a kid (70s) my mother talking about how you have to learn to 'speak properly' if you want to go into radio. She must have had some fantasy about that, because she'd put on this really posh voice when she talked on the telephone.
Glad to have brought some joy. Landline telephone frequency band is quite limited, so the brighter and clearer one speaks the easier, the person on other end may understand: Clear English, maybe known as posh, seems to be superior. 'The King's Speech' 2010 is, for me, an education re: history of microphone technology; I actually posses an emulation of the several filters employed to allow King George VI, along with his speech therapist, to sound more coherent.
I'm a born and raised South Australian, however I now live in Perth. I dont notice any real difference in accent. However I was working with an Englishman and he asked me where I was from because he could notice a difference in my accent to West Aussies.
@@vamppanic Just read your message in Queensland, fuck you.
@@vamppanic yea I think the biggest difference is how we say bath in Sa compared to the eastern states
South Australian accent is lazy more like the poms. They don't pronounce L's & R's and pronounce O in a strange way. Examples : girls, S.A. giwls. world, S.A. wewd. They're a pretty wierd mob down there.
@@rzsz491 Caught 1, just wanted to do a bit of fishing. You mob do have a distinct accent of your own coming from an outsider and it is VERY annoying.
the most famous West Australian accent I can think of is Dennis Commetti and he sounds like he came from the same place as Bruce McAvaney. Struck match between WA and SA accents.
Apart from General, Broad and Cultivated, I would argue that another very prominent sub-genre of the Australian accent was spawned by the waves of migration from Greece, Italy, Lebanon, various parts of Asia and all over the world. The kids born to those parents (me included!) tend to have an accent that is pretty distinct from your typical Anglo Australian.
Agreed, you have the westie/bogan like a lazy-nasally General-broad blend & as you say the “ethnic” Aussie English
That's pretty true too, particularly if you are from a Greek or Italian family.
The German speaking and Scandinavian countries tend to be the middle ground in the accents.
Fully sic bra!!!
Lebanese-Australian is considered a dialect by linguists. There are certainly others too, such as Italian and Greek.
Orh moy god!
Orh moy god!
Orh moy god!
Jus' wait til oi tell yews what oi jus' heard!
Oim telling yews, yew will not buhleeve it!
This is authentic Greek Ostrayan.
Nah, seriously.
Don't tell me what to do, orright?
The three different accents here in Australia is definitely a thing, however the accent does differ depending on what state or territory you're from. The Victorian accent is different to the Queensland accent, for example. I'm also a Victorian and when I was travelling in the US everyone thought I was from England, which I found strange.
Exactly! The South Aussie accent is distinct from both Victorian and Queensland accent, for example. There are good articles out there explaining these Australian accents. People forget how large a landmass Australia is.
I feel you Adrian, I’m a Victorian and I sound abnormally British, people in my school still get confused when they meet me.
Very true. I'm from Sydney, and when I hear Melbournians speak it can sound a bit weird. They tend to turn "el" sounds into "al" sounds. For example, "help" becomes "halp", "Melbourne" becomes "Malbourne", and so on.
From my understanding, the "from England" sound to some Melbourne accents is due to class reasons whilst in SA we have a different "from England" sound to our accent which comes from the 10 pound pomms (SA not being settled by convicts, still needed cheap labour and hence offered people to move here from the UK for 10 pounds a head)
The accents of Perth and Sydney are strangely more similar to each other than either is to that of Adelaide.
Really enjoyed this video, I hope you continue to explore other accents in future videos as well! I feel like this is the perfect kind of topic for your channel to branch out into.
My accent as a West Aussie is pretty British, as I had a lot of Pom friends as a kid, but some bits are americanised thanks to TH-cam, and when I yell at someone my Afrikaans accent comes through. The Aussie accent is so fluid without a native language to back it up that a single person’s pronunciation will likely vary wildly from word to word.
I've noticed that too. Sometimes I notice that my accent has changed a little depending who I'm talking to
@@ilaibavati6941 Ive been accused of faking an Aussie accent online
Goeiedag.
I swear I here small differences between Australian accents from around the country like in Perth compared to Sydney.
I agree. Perthlings usually have a slightly less harsh or broad accent than Sydneysiders. Probably because Perth has the highest number of British born citizens per capita than any other city or place in Australia.
If you were to HEAR them you might have a different opinion.
So have I. Western Sydney had at one point efficacy on S. Then I had some Victorian prounce M-all as Mal. Also some have different pace Sydney is faster than Brisbane.
Part of the difference is due to which migrant group entry the area.
@@flamingfrancis Don’t be a smart arse. Many Aussies can’t spell “proper”, just like Yanks, Poms and mostly Kiwis.
You can, the differences are absolutely noticeable even to my American ears. I’m from Florida, it would be like saying every single state in the south from Texas to Louisiana to Florida has the same accent.. there’s some similarities but a LOT of differences as well..
Can you also cover the difference between Aussie speech and Kiwi speech?
Australian is a more evil sounding version of the New Zealand accent.
Kiwi speech is an even stronger example of accent flattening with many of the vowel sounds flattened as well, where the aussie one has quite sharp vowel sounds.
The main difference between the two accents comes from the high level of immigration to Australia from London and Ireland, particularly in the mid-nineteenth century, whereas the Kiwi accent is more heavily influenced by immigrants from the north of England Scotland. In the South Island in particular, many words and sounds are direct implants from the Scots (Lallans) dialect/language.
Erik Singer has a video about this, I think
@@sallybradshaw4576 Erik Singer goes into detail showing you WHAT the differences are. (His video is very good, btw.)
Patrick likes to find out WHY. (Hint: The ‘Great Vowel Shift’ and Scottish immigration into NZ.)
*Where did the Australian accent come from?*
Me, an intellectual: Australia
Australian here, when I was in the UK, people confused me for an American, and in the US people confused me for the British. Maybe someone with a thicker Australian accent would be recognized, but most of us don't really have as strong an accent as some people think.
I'm an Aussie to everyone but Australians, my accent is fucked
Yes I agree,often online people mistake my accent for british and american Because it isn’t very strong
Rubbish!!
You said: "most of us don't really have as strong an accent as some people think.
". I believe you are correct. My family once ran into 4 young men from Australia where in America who were on vacation. Delightful young men. We invited them to our home and they spent a week with us exploring Kentucky and Tennessee. We had no problem at all understanding them. Their accents seemed to disappear after two days. They fit right in.
Wait, is the Queen's accent really considered RP? I've always considered her accent very "other". I've literally never heard anyone else with an accent quite like the Queen's. The fact that Clair Foy had to learn the accent for her role kind of says something about it.
From what I understand, she used to have a very RP accent when she was younger (the famous televised Christmas speech being an example), but over the years it has broadened out into her own sorta thing (Also, the RP accent itself would have changed from then). Or perhaps I'm wrong, I'm not exactly an expert on English accents.
@@jared_bowden Well seeing that RP travel everywhere, seeing that if your Rich or a Titan of Industry and could travel all over the world, I bet it is not big of a difference between the forms of Queens English around the world. Remember the movie Titanic I couldn't tell if they were British or not because some were Americans but still High class on board.
I'm not British but I saw a Programm from the 60s were they interviewed women on the streets. They all had the queen's accent. Maybe the Queen simply stuck to it whilst the rest of England evolved?
@@stephjovi Most people keep it as a statement of status. Remember the woman in Hunger games?
it’s just a nickname. now it’s called “the queens”, whilst back when the UK had a king it was called “the kings”. my guess is just that since the king/queen is the highest person in the UK, they are considered the most important, thus would be what the language should be like.
When Americans try to do an Australian accent, it often sounds like an old-fashioned cockney accent to me (an Australian).
Americans like to put maximum effort into affecting an accent, but the Aussie accent is all about relaxed effort.
@@rorywalsh1985 Seems like a lot of the accents from Texas and the southern US. Most who try to mimic our accents tend to put way too much emphasis on them and wind up being grating on the ears.
+James Hutchings. So true. Robert Downey jr. is one of the few that has nailed it (in the films Natural Born Killers and Tropic Thunder). Miley Cyrus does a killer Aussie accent too, thanks to her being with one of the Hemsworth brothers for a while.
@New Falconer Records,
RD Jnr’s Aussie accent in Tropic Thunder wasn’t too bad, but dropped into a bit of Cockney-sounding something-or-other at stages. But I forgave him for that in an otherwise amazing acting performance as the dude playin’ a dude, disguised as another dude!
As an American who has lived in AU for some time, I agree. I usually can’t help but cringe when fellow US folks attempt an Aussie accent.. it’s always some weird blend of cockney and Scottish, yet neither..
"it seems that accent isn't quite as abundant" from the Torres Straight to Perth Indigenous Australians have quite a varied accent, it's not just the one.
Kids here are constantly watching media from the US and now use US pronunciations and terminology, even speaking with a weird hybrid accent which is sad.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s universal English language radio in 1932 was broadcast to all Australians regardless of where they were located. It standardised the spoken language. It was discovered through academics studying Aussie English many years ago that the ABC radio and television had a huge influence in the uniformity of the Australian accent. Look it up.
The accent and lingo used in the western end of Sydney is so much different to people from the inner city it’s crazy maybe due to to the economic situations from both areas I don’t know but proper good content bro keep it up:)
They say inpordon instead of important for example.
Western Sydney has a broad range of people from non-English speaking backgrounds..
I'm from Liverpool and can pick the difference between there and Campbelltown, Fairfield etc
About RP, many people in the south of England speak RP as their native dialect, it’s not just the Queen and nobility.
Indeed, I too speak this way.
Not really. It's largely a class thing, although everyone in the UK is affected by it because of the media.
Interesting enough, the queen doesn't speak RP. You can hear the difference when she says words like Often (she rhymes them with orphan)
@@Kaidoesthething the Queen's pronunciation is always cotrection. The language and pronunciation used by the queen is the Queen's English
My father came from Guildford. His “proper” accent rubbed off on me and so a lot of people think I speak in an “educated English” accent, even though I was born and raised in Australia. My mum is 7th generation Australian with convict heritage. Her accent is somewhere between general and broad Aussie. She grew up on a farm.
So THAT'S why I keep on saying 'coal' instead of 'wind' and 'solar'
The ultimate irony is that any learning made possible by this video is overwhelmed by the narrators inflection, which is horrific.
"Sweet as, bro" sounds more Kiwi than Aussie. Just my opinion (edit: yeah, watched on a phone, I didn't see the joke embedded in the video, haha).
That is why Australia had the "not amused" face and NZ was smiling.
Thank you Ted, That was the joke...
@@Aabergm I was watching it on a small phone screen, didn't even notice the image, lol.
Yes horis say bro,not all nzers copy,Jackman born in England.
I'm an American living in Australia. There are different types of Aussie accents and some of them sound more from parts of the UK.
I agree. One of my cousins is married to an Aussie but her husband's accent is British like.
Yeah the people with sticks up their ass' sound like the poms
@@harryeverett2152 HA! I died laughing because some them pommies are too stuck up when they speak as well!
Before the 80's most Aussies sounded very English it's only in the last few decades it's really changed so much
I don't know why but in general British accents annoy me but I enjoy the Aussie accent. I am an overseas American.
I spent a couple weeks in Sydney, Australia in the mid-1960s and enjoyed the Aussie accent.
Awesome video, absolutely nailed it mate.
While it is true that Australian English is basically described as having ‘standard’, ‘broad’ and ‘cultured’ accents, a few regional differences are beginning to emerge. In fact, Sydney is such a large, diverse, but tribal city (like other cosmopolitan cities around the world), that you can now generally tell what part of the city someone comes from by their accent.
In the last 50 years or so, a new particularly broad accent has emerged in the western suburbs of Sydney and outer suburbs of Melbourne, heavily influenced by immigrants from mainly Mediterranean countries (Italy, Greece, Lebanon) after the Second World War. You can hear it clearly in the irreverent Aussie comedy tv series, “Fat Pizza”.
Also, there is a clear but subtle East/West divide. People from Adelaide and Perth tend to say “plahnt” and “dahnce”, similar to southern England (from where a greater proportion of immigrants came), whereas along the East coast, you’re more likely to hear something more similar to the American pronunciation... perhaps even more nasal.
In the north of Australia, you’ll hear flatter, more nasal vowels, and a greater use of Australia’s famous final rising intonation, where everything sounds like a question? 😏.
In the southeastern states, you’ll often hear people (especially ‘broad’ accent speakers) pronounce Th sounds as F or V, similar to the Home Counties in Britain. And Melbournians can often be recognised by their pronunciation of certain diphthongs: in most of Australia, you’ll hear “poor” pronounced identically with “pore” and “paw” (no diphthongisation), but in Melbourne, it’ll sound like “poo-uh”.
Penriff
That last point about the Melbournian accent sounds like it's derived from the Welsh dialect.
@@JamesDavy2009 It does, but there is no direct evidence of any particular influence of English speakers from Wales, however, during the Gold Rush years, when over 290,000 people (mainly young men) swarmed into Victoria from Britain and Ireland between 1850 and 1856, there was a greater variation of accents heard on the goldfields. The influence of a wider variety of English accents (including Welsh) as well as other languages (most notably Chinese, particularly Cantonese), and the results of accent levelling, produced a slightly different accent in Melbourne. Further influences on the degrees of variation of accents between Sydney and Melbourne can be demonstrated by the greater proportion of British Anglicans and Presbyterians in 19th and early 20th Century Melbourne, compared to Sydney and Brisbane, with their relatively high Irish Catholic population at the time.
Australian accent cultured,ha.
I have a broad accent but it has become more general over the last decade after moving to the city. Used to hate how 'country' I sounded when I first got here, but now I miss the ol' accent and it's even hard to fall back on lol Great vid mate!
The stuff about the craetion of the accent reminded me of the study done on people living long-term in an Antarctic science base and how all the people with different accents changed subtly to mimic each others.
Geoffrey Rush also has the cultivated accent, it's common in the theatre/arts.
Jack Thompson definitely put a plum in his mouth as his acting career progressed
It’s common in wankers.
I am frequently confused to be from London, I was born and raised in Melbourne
There do seem to be a significant number of Aussies who sound British. I had a classmate like that in school. He was from Australia but you wouldn't guess based on this accent.
I'm from South coast New South Wales and when I first visited London I was asked "how come you don't have an accent?"
I used to always get asked if I was from England as a kid, I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life. I think it’s my diction or pronunciation or something.
people think i have a american accent, i am living in melbourne
Same
Wow, that's really interesting to me that the Aussie accent is closely related to Cockney. I'm American and every time I try to do Aussie it morphs almost immediately into Cockney and I didn't really know why until now. My sister-in-law is Australian and I _still_ can't do a good Aussie. I'm still just trying to get a good Aussie "No," but that word is really hard!
I've noticed that most American actors sound more like Cockney when attempting our accent. It might have something to do with our broader vowel sounds compared to Americans' stronger consonants.
Robert Downey Jr. tends to come closest.
It's only really been 30-40 years since Aussie culture started to gain any sort of prominence in America, so it's understandable that it is still being figured out.
A long while if a US television show had character who was meant to be Australian they do a bad cockney accent (not Dick Van Dyke bad) with a strewth or crikey thrown in. The odd thing was and still is that there are a good number of Australian actors working in the States that you would realize unless you see them interviewed or the out takes.
*No has a slight "W" sound on the end if that at all helps
haha i’m Australian and everytime i go a cockney accent it eventually just turns into my own accent
Totally agree. The "o" sound in the Aussie pronunciation of "no" is a real tongue-twister. Don't know how they came up with that sound.
There definitely are many different Australian accents due to geographical regions and socioeconomic reasons but they wouldn’t be as noticeable to foreigners.
I was raised in the US but living here just over 10 years, the differences between regional accents are really noticeable even to my American-raised ears.. I always find it funny when international people say things about Australia that are simply not true, it seems to be extremely common in TH-cam videos!
The Queen's own accent has changed greatly in her own lifetime
the Queen's accent is derived from her German roots. She sounds more like South Africans than most people in England.
There are definitely differences in the Aussie accent between different areas of the country. It's not as pronounced as those of the UK but noticeable if you grow up here. There is also the differences as you mentioned between city, bush and lse.
But I'm pretty sure "sweet as bro" is kiwi. Some Aussies might say it but it's not Aussie in general.
Chur bro is considered maori/kiwi whereas sweet as bro is very much a coastal Australian thing. It's use came from surfing lingo so it hasn't really entered rural or large cities.
The accent in SA and WA is not as broad as the other states. Sydney siders tend to inflect the pitch at the end of sentences to make statements sound like a questions.
Row boat,sweet as is hori, not all nzers say it,Australia will take anything that's not nailed down, friendly rivalry between countries,arderns a layer as well.,she going to go so from England.
What's "Ise" FGS?
Australians take everything.
Interesting video. I'm from the UK but have lived in Australia for eight years. I'd say you're more likely to get Cultivated accents in Victoria and South Australia, whereas Broad accents are more apparent the further north you go. That said, I think something that is missing from this video is the emergence of Ethnocultural Aussie English; it's very apparent wherever you go. It's explained in this video by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: th-cam.com/video/4LvWYP7839Q/w-d-xo.html
I assume same as english cockney which has has more or less been replaced by a ethno accent
Victorian is very similar to Queensland and all 4 Eastern states sound very Aussie. Whereas SA & WA speak a very understated Aussie.
just some of the things that this video overlooked. 1. Ireland. 2. Climate. 3. Gold Rush Migration 4. Post 1945 patronage shift from UK to USA. 5. Rock and Roll 6. Television. 7. 21st century net-based connectivity.
Also, I can guarantee that at least until the late 20th century, a keen ear could detect State of origin. And, closing comments delivered in reasonable parody of NZ accent. 4.5/10 + credit for the Cate Blanchet call.
Fun fact, I managed to master the Aussie accent at 7. Then I learnt Scottish, Southern Irish and RP. It’s been pretty funny going off on courses and convincing people I’m from elsewhere... don’t know why.
It just kind of came naturally to me, and I eventually forgot my natural accent, so now I have a weird blend whereby I speak clearly, but have a lot of mannerisms and use a lot of colloquialisms.😂
“Sweet as bro”? That’s New Zealand. Not Australia.
11:50 Sweet as, bro? Okay, now you HAVE to do a video on the NZ accent!
Yeah, that's Niw Zelund, not Australian.
@ Avicenna
New Zealanders are heavily influenced by the migration from Scotland.
We have similar patterns of immigration, especially since we both had a gold rush at the same time, but NZ has retained the Glaswegian vowel sounds.
Canada does too to a lesser extent with their "oot and aboot" that we find so cute.
And their world famous "sore-ree" (sorry).
Avicenna,don't put horis and some nzers together,won't get far.
It’s worth considering how the New Zealand and South African accents sound very similar IMO.
There’s absolutely subtle differences, but in general your average person could easily mistake them.
I did hear someone call it a southern hemisphere tang which has a stronger S.
I am Rhodesian living in England and folks hear my accent as Australian.
It's no accident that Sth AFR, Aussies and Kiwis have a similar accent even though we are thousands of miles apart. When the colonies were new, the teachers in the schools mainly came from Scotland, England and Germany. There was a great confusion initially with the children on how to speak and it simply morphed into the current accent. There is a wonderful documentary called "The Story of English." It's about 20 years old. It explains this phenomenon and the reason for it.
Merc at arms,talking utter rubbish.
@@judis6224 what’s rubbish?
They absolutely sound similar
I hear accents from all over the UK in Australian accents. Mainly south Eastern, but the hard A as in cah pahk is definately Manchester /Yorkshire.
It's amazing that it hardly changes over hundreds of miles. In North West England where I live, people 6 miles away to the North talk differently to me.
Good example: Watch Photonicinduction's TH-cam videos and listen to the way he speaks. Very strong Kent accent. Very similar to Australian.
I just watched a bit of him....Sorry, NOTHING like the Aussie accent. He sound really broad cockneyfied English to me. Certainly not Aussie at all.
"making the land habitable" lol yeah because nobody else lived there before
Not true, native Australians lived there for tens of thousands of years
@@Seroquelfan you figured out the fucking joke good work
@@moresnqp calm down
@@sharicarroll6671 i get angry when people accuse me of ignoring this kind of thing. it was obviously a joke and this person was making a moral judgment on me.
@@moresnqp um, no bud, she was actually acknowledging the same point you were trying to make. PS work on your "joke" game.
See Simon Roper’s video of the changing London accent. The late 18thC accent is pretty close to the ‘general’ Australian accent.
th-cam.com/video/3lXv3Tt4x20/w-d-xo.html
Australian here... I like to watch a show called 'Landline' about Australian farming. One time they did a story somewhere so remote even i could not understand what the guy was saying! lol
Aussie accent + blocked nose = New Zealand accent
There's also the "feefty-seex" vs "fufty-sux" distinction, and the Kiwis tend to say "eh" sounds as "ee" or "i", like "eextra/ixtra"
@@aaronodonoghue1791 aaguh
Yee brew
😂
@@aaronodonoghue1791 And "niver iver" ( never ever ) 😉
Meanwhile, I'm watching a weird Australian-accent rhino on "Power Rangers: Beast Morphers."
He’s from Melbourne; he has a standard Melbourne accent. His parents are immigrants from Ukraine.
This was very interesting, thank you.
There are definitely accent variations based on area as well as ethnicity. I can tell a south Australian and far North Queenslander apart quite distinctly. Also, northern suburban Melbourne and/or western Sydney have a Greek or Italian or Lebanese twist which is very recognisable yet also very very Aussie.
You forgot to mention the indigenous aspect hey, they have had some influence, especially on placenames.
Yeah there are some pidgin accents too, and indigenous phrases like "mob" etc
Great general explanation. I'm from Adelaide but have lived in the Uk and 21 years in Asia. I can pick an Adelaide accent the easiest and always guess correctly when I meet one somewhere. To be honest, it is usually the mildest accent and we are often thought to be Kiwis until they notice we don't say the e and i vowels like Kiwis.
Until I was 14 I grew up in West London, then from 14 to 21 I lived in Birmingham. When I moved back south (Essex) I constantly got asked if I was Australian.
American's don't "immediately recognise" Australian accent! I served on a US warship in 2004 and thre were also 2 Aussies on board. the yanks could not tell us apart!
I didn't know Kate Blanche was an Aussie either until you mentioned it. Her accent must be pretty damn cultivated!
Her accent is normal for a city born Australian.
@ chuck Cate Blanchett went to Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne. She's a little bit older than I am, but it was a great school for upper middle class and upper class girls.
Public speaking and social confidence was cultivated and encouraged in the student population. They even taught us how to walk up to a podium, up on stage, to speak into a microphone, to deliver a speech...etc
I really appreciated it.
Cate was Drama Captain.😁
Chuck peck, Australians go on about how great they think their country bis,but choose to live in America,UK or NZ.
Well done. I picked up on your accent shift for effect. It was well played as acting a part.
BTW I Love the Aussie accent. (But, in truth, I love the very broad expression of our beloved language, our own lingua franca.)
I thought that the use of truncated words came about because of the chance of swallowing flies increased the longer one had ones mouth open.
I lived in Britain for 2 years and hearing the locals say "free' instead of "three" used to drive me nuts. We still speak the purest english :)
Saying "free" instead? 'three' is just a London accent. This is not said across the country.
just like this guy in the video lol. some aussies pronounce th as an f too to be honest
me over here who says "three" like "t-ree" and "tree" like "chree"
-_- (im pakistani)
I've always thought of the Australian accent as an offshoot of cockney mixed with some other dialects that influenced it over time. It does make sense when you look at how it was a penal colony full of cockney criminals
Cockney Rejects!? Know what i´m talking aboot, mate. Cool
The Aussie accent has changed remarkably in my life (I am in UK). Most of my perception is based on TV programmes, and that is not wholly representative, but current Australian TV accents are very different from those on Skippy.
The most noticeable change is the reduction in the number of vowel sounds, with a trend for vowels to close in in the short "i" sound. This is simthing alriddy found in Sith Ifricin and NZ accents. If my observation is correct, then how, when and why did this change take place? And why do such widely spaced nations have such similar usage of vowel sounds?
I agree we don't sound like the accents on Skippy anymore, but I'm not sure we're shortening our vowels like Kiwis. NZ vowels shift a little with every earthquake they have. Lol (sorry)
My friend who was born and brought up in Essex England emigrated to Australia. He said it was great, and he said he didn't have change his accent. Lots of convicts were sent from the Essex marshes to Australia and took their Essex /North London speech with them.
It is not entirely accurate to say there’s no dialects based on geography in Australia. I’m from South Australia and we have very different pronunciation of English. So much so that when we travel interstate in our own country, we will be confused as coming from overseas. The history of the South Australian accent is slightly long, but is related to the fact that South Australia was set up as a free colony rather than as a penal one. Our dialect is what you called cultivated, but I don’t like that term as it sounds like we are putting it on. It’s just how we speak. Safe to say, we do get made fun of for sounding posh, but we get a lot of jobs as newsreaders throughout the country.
Gee Laury. The rest of Australia thinks S.A is full of pretentious wankers with unjustified superiority complexes, now I understand why. Thanks for sharing. Lol.
SA accent is bloody awful. More like a strine!
"Sweet as bro" feels more kiwi to me
Yeah "bro" isn't really used in our accent that much
I recently listened to a recording of my Dad rambling in an audio letter to his parents back in the late 60s and his accent was much more broad back then. We've always lived in country towns and on farms but with globalised media everywhere these days and more cultures coming together from across the world our accent has changed. I even noticed it in myself, hearing a recording of me as a 9 year old farm kid chatting in what I can only describe as broad bogan, compared with now when I get asked if I'm even Australian! Hahaha
Drinking at a bar in Kuta beach an American looked at me and said "keep talking man, I can't understand a word you're saying but man I love that accent". I replied "you're the one with the accent." His response "I love it!"
Strewth mate, I never had my accent described as "pure" before.
My great grandparents had a very Broad Norfolk accent and when they're used to come down to where we live in Hampshire people on the train (over 50 years ago) used to say do you come from Australia it used to happen a lot every time they came down so my grandparents said, if you know your accents you would understand I think this particular accent is getting a bit watered down now it's not so Broad.
I understand that to an English the regional variations might be a bit too subtle but it's pretty easy to tell Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth accents apart if you know what to listen for. Melbourne calls themselves Mulbun and pronounce permit, permut.
If you want to know if someone is from Perth, ask them to say beer. They all say booya. It's an instant tell-tale!
Thanks for the video I really enjoyed. I'm an Aussie and I would say the Aboriginal inflence is much bigger than you give it credit for. Aboriginal words have definitely entered the Australian language for things like place and animal names, even some objects, and this affects our pronunciation. I think also if you dig deeper so many accents have emerged in Australia since the 1950s and different cities have their own sub types of Aussie accents and their own slang, particularly from people of ethnic backgrounds. You could probably classify at least 6-12, some TV shows depict these accents which can be very different to the standard 3. They're interesting and still emerging and I think in another few decades they'll become even more distinct. It's also well known that people from the state of South Australia have more English sounding accents I believe as no convicts were ever sent there. I'd love to see more videos made on the subject.
A significant portion of convicts were Irish. How has this been ignored?
True, many of the original convicts were Irish, which explains why so many Aussies have Irish surnames. And yet, I don't hear any Irish influence in the Aussie accent. Mainly just cockney.
Irish convicts constituted roughly 25% of the overall number of convicts, transported to Australia. The rest, being 75% came from the UK. So the UK had a stronger influence on the development of the Australian accent, particularly the South East accent from the England. This is not to discount the Irish influence entirely.
I’m gonna try to guess..... Is it from..... Australia?
I'm curious, have you done a video on your *_own_* accent? I hate to admit it but your accent is probably 50% of why I come watch this channel. The content is certainly very interesting, but the package it's delivered in makes it memorable!
@Name Explain did you know that in Australia their is actually a significant variations in accent due to geography, people in North Queensland have a rougher "rural" accent shall I say and on the oppositie side of the country Perth, kids are born into a more "posh" accent which most grow out of. It is quite interesting
As an Australian I find it quite funny that other people like the sound of this accent. It matches the general ecology at least; mostly course and irritating 😂
Is anyone going to talk about how Name Explain attributed "sweet as, bro" to Australia, instead of New Zealand?
Yes, that’s the first thing I thought too. Definitely a Kiwi expression.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s universal English language radio in 1932 was broadcast to all Australians regardless of where they were located. It standardised the spoken Australian English.
It was discovered by academics studying Aussie English many years ago that the ubiquitous ABC radio and television had a huge influence in the uniformity of the modern Australian accent. Look it up.
Gosh, what IN DEPTH RESEARCH went in to this!
It used to be one of my favourite little jokes that Australia is the only country that speaks English with no accent.... And now you're telling me there a grain of truth to it. 😛😝
No accent and also no muscular effort. I have read that the Aussie accent requires the least amount of facial muscle movement in speech formation, while interestingly the American accent involves one of the highest amount of facial muscle gymnastics.
Maybe it's due to Australia's warm climate, but the accent sounds kind d of lazy, with a lot of abbreviations in their vocabulary too.