The percentage of people who speak only the English language at home, 2021. Australian English ( AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language and de facto national language; while Australia has no official language, English is the first language of the A British guy would pronounce the vowel "a" equally in all these words. But an American would give one sound for the first three words, and the other for the rest. It is interesting to me, that the American English has changed the Brithsh sound "a" in most of the words, but retained it intact in a handful of words. PX4q.