General Australian

Australian English is a non-rhotic variety of English spoken by most native-born Australians. Phonologically, it is one of the most regionally homogeneous language varieties in the world. As with most dialects of English, it is distinguished primarily by its vowel phonology. Australian English is stress-timed.

Full vowels:

Monophthongs	Front	Central	Back		Front	Central	Back
Monophthongs	Short				Long
Close
Mid
Open

//: bid
//: good
/e/: bed
//: pot
//: bat
//: bud

//: bead
//: booed
//: bared
/ː/: bird
//: bought, board
//: bad
//: father, bard

Diphthongs	to unrounded	to rounded		Centring
Diphthongs	Closing			Centring
Starting close
Starting mid
Starting open

//: boy
//: toe
//: bay
//: buy
//: cow

//: beer
//: tour (falling out of use in Australian English; often replaced by disyllabic // or monophthongal //)

Reduced vowels

//: roses, Rosa’s, runner
/l/: bottle
/n/: button
/m/: rhythm

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