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Italo-Australian dialect
Native to	Australia
Ethnicity	Italian Australians
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italo-Romance Italian Italo-Australian dialect
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Tuscan Florentine
Writing system	Italian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	it-AU
People with Italian ancestry as a percentage of the population in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, as of the 2011 census.

Italo-Australian^[1] is anAustralian-based dialect ofItalian that is spoken byAustralians of Italian descent.^[2]

The exact number of speakers is unknown, but it is highly speculated that the language is mainly spoken by the younger generations, passed on by the elder ancestors, who created the language.^[3] Some researchers^[who?] think that the dialect might have been spoken by nearly 900,000 Italian Australians in 2012.

The foundation of this dialect is modernItalian, which was brought to Australia following theItalian diaspora in the postWorld War I era. It wasn't until the years after the second diaspora afterWorld War II that the dialect came into note.^{[according to whom?]}

The language was simply created with modern Italian words being influenced by the vocabulary of theEnglish language, to create Italian/English words. Some words follow the rules of Italian spelling, changing to an English one only with a few character changes to make it sound Italian.^[4]ItalianlinguistTullio De Mauro has noted the dialect in his famous book 'Storia Della Lingua' as "developing dialect that is still enduring the modern influences of English".

De Mauro also claims the language is growing with the vocabulary being passed onto the younger generations ofItalian Australians.^{[citation needed]}

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