Rowville, Victoria
The Rowville Accent
Rowville sits inside the Melbourne dialect area, which covers Melbourne, Australia. No other dialect area in the survey comes close to it.
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What people in Rowville sound like
- “Celery” and “salary” can sound the same — a Melbourne/Victoria giveaway.
- Non-rhotic, with the broad “bath” vowel.
- Australian vocabulary: “thongs”, “esky”, “arvo”, “milk bar”.
- The rest of the vowel system is General Australian, not Broad Queensland.
These are the markers of the Melbourne accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Rowville has all of them — the full Melbourne profile sets out where the region varies.
Is your accent from Rowville?
There is no way to answer that from a description. The test asks 29 questions about the words you use and how you say them, scores your answers against the Melbourne / Southern Australian English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.