English) is a dialect of the English language spoken by the people of various backgrounds (indigenous Torres Strait Islanders, Malay, Filipino, European, Japanese, etc.)
Its main phonological characteristic is the retention of English [iː] and [uː] where Australian English has [əi] and [əu] (for example, wheel [ˈwiːl] rather than [ˈwəil], fool [ˈfuːl] rather than [ˈfəul]), while where grammar and the like are concerned, Torres Strait English shows a certain amount of post-Creole characteristics, such as the phrase You for [adjective] (e.g. You for style!)
The input dialects were British of various types including Irish, Jamaican and others.
Substratum languages include Malay, Japanese, Chinese, Jamaican Creole, Samoan, Brokan and so on.
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