A creole spoken by Aborigines in the north of Australia.
Kriol shares some features of grammar with English-based pidgins in the Pacific
Example sentencesExamples
- Although Australian Kriol does not have any official status, it has been used in bilingual education programs in parts of Australia.
- The objective form is linguistically possible in Kriol.
- It is clear that Kriol is spoken by a considerable number of Aboriginal people.
- Peggy speaks not standard English but a local Kriol.
- Other songs by this group intersperse lines in Kriol with text in English.
- Kriol is firmly established in northern Australia, and various forms of Aboriginal English are spoken across Australia.
- The Kriol bible was produced in conjunction with a committee of Aboriginal consultants.
- Most of the limited Kriol morphology is associated with the verb and there are five prepositions that indicate grammatical relations.
- Aboriginal people commonly refer to these groupings in Aboriginal languages and in Kriol as a 'country'.
- Kriol is a continuum of varieties.