Language spoken

LANGUAGE SPOKEN

—  English is the language oficial34 and is spoken and written in a variant known as Australian English. According to the 2001 Census, English is the only language spoken at home by about 80% of the population. After this, the most widely spoken in the home environment are Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%) and Greek (1.4%). The Spanish (0.5%), with 104 thousand speakers is the seventh language of influence in the country. Most Spanish speakers in Australia are from Argentina, Uruguayan, Chilean and Spanish. A Spanish-speaking Australians can find them in the big cities, mainly in Sydney and Melbourne.