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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Commonwealth English is a blanket term for the English that developed during the British Empire after the independence of the United States of America. Thus it is the English of the United Kingdom and that variety's development in the Commonwealth nations, such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean. Those places use British English as their ancestral model - in contrast to Canada, whose English is a variety of American English. Also to be considered outside the definition are Irish English, as the Republic of Ireland is not a member of the Commonwealth, and Mozambican English. Mozambique does not have English as the colonial language: it was part of the Portuguese Empire, and only joined the Commonwealth in 1996.