'''Australian Kriol''' also known as '''Roper River KriolRoper River Kriol, Fitzroy Valley Kriol Fitzroy Valley Kriol, Northern Australian Creole Northern Australian Creole''' or '''Aboriginal EnglishAboriginal English'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures |publisher=[[Oxford]] |pages=1 |language=en}}</ref> is an [[English-based creole languages|English-based]] [[creole language]] that developed from a [[pidgin]] used initially in the region of [[Sydney]] and [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]] in [[New South Wales]], Australia, in the early days of [[colonisation of Australia|European colonisation]]. Later, it was spoken by groups further west and north. The pidgin died out in most parts of the country, except in the [[Northern Territory]], where the contact between European settlers, the Chinese and other Asians, and the [[Aboriginal Australians]] in the northern regions has maintained a vibrant use of the language, which is spoken by about 30,000 people. Despite its similarities to English in vocabulary, it has a distinct syntactic structure and grammar. It is a language in its own right and is distinct from [[Torres Strait Creole]].
