The principal language in Australia is English, however the number of individual languages listed for Australia is 400. Of these, 206 are living and 194 are extinct. Of the living languages, 196 are indigenous and 10 are non-indigenous. Furthermore, 7 are institutional, 22 are developing, 9 are vigorous, 29 are in trouble, and 139 are dying.
Australia also has many immigrant language. Some of the biggest immigrant populations; Afrikaans (35,000), Arabic (287,000), Bengali (35,600), Bosnian (15,300), Croatian (61,500), Dari (20,200), Dutch (37,200), Eastern Punjabi (71,200), French (57,700), Gujarati (34,200), Hindi (111,000), Indonesian (55,900), Iranian Persian (34,600), Korean (79,800), Macedonian (68,800), Maltese (34,400), Polish (50,700), Portuguese (33,400), Romanian (12,300), Russian (44,100), Samoan (36,600), Serbian (55,100), Sinhala (48,200), Spanish (117,000), Tagalog (81,500), Tamil (50,200), Thai (36,700), Turkish (59,600), Urdu (36,800), Vietnamese (233,000).