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According to the 2018 census, English is the most-spoken language in every district of New Zealand. Māori is the second-most spoken language in 60 of the 67 cities and districts of New Zealand. The second-most spoken languages in the remaining seven cities and districts are: [37] Samoan is the second-most spoken language in Auckland and ...
Chinese Voice (Chinese: 華人之聲廣播電臺) is a Cantonese, Mandarin and English language radio network based in Auckland, New Zealand.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Best News Entertainment, an Asian language television, print and radio company, and consists of three station set up between 2003 and 2010.
English was spoken by 92.3%, Māori language by 2.6%, Samoan by 4.5% and other languages by 29.4%. No language could be spoken by 2.3% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.4%. The percentage of people born overseas was 42.5, compared with 28.8% nationally.
The removal of basic Māori phrases meaning “hello” and “New Zealand” from a Māori lunar new year invitation to an Australian official was not a snub of the Indigenous language by New ...
Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) [1] is the Māori-language name for New Zealand.The name was originally used by Māori in reference only to the North Island, with the whole country being referred to as Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu – where Te Ika-a-Māui means North Island, and Te Waipounamu means South Island. [2]
People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 87.2% European , 19.1% Māori, 2.1% Pasifika, 2.1% Asian, and 4.3% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 97.9%, Māori language by 6.4%, and other languages by 4.3%. New Zealand Sign Language was known by 2.1%. The ...
Bilingual sign at a railway station in Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand has two de jure official languages: Māori and New Zealand Sign Language, [21] whereas New Zealand English acts as a de facto official language. [22] [23] Te reo Māori gained its official status with the passing of the Māori Language Act 1987. [24]
English is the predominant language in New Zealand, spoken by 95.4% of the population. [337] New Zealand English is a variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon. [338] It is similar to Australian English, and many speakers from the Northern Hemisphere are unable to tell the accents apart. [339]