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English is the predominant language and a de facto official language of New Zealand. Almost the entire population speak it either as native speakers or proficiently as a second language. [ 1 ] The New Zealand English dialect is most similar to Australian English in pronunciation, with some key differences.
As of 2015, 55% of Māori adults reported some knowledge of the language; of these, 64% use Māori at home and around 50,000 people can speak the language "well". [10] As of 2023, around 7% of New Zealand primary and secondary school students are taught fully or partially in Māori, and another 24% learn Māori as an additional language. [11]
The Māori Language Act 1987 was a piece of legislation passed by the Parliament of New Zealand [2] that gave official language status to the Māori language (te reo Māori), and gave speakers a right to use it in legal settings such as courts.
The language was once close to dying out, but activists provoked a revival over several decades, and common Māori words or phrases are now in everyday use among all New Zealanders.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
New Zealand will now impose an English-language requirement on those applying for worker visas, including for low-skilled jobs. The government is also reducing the length of stay to three years ...
New Zealand Sign Language: New Zealand (with English and Māori) Noon: Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... New Zealand: 4 61 65 0.91 4,706,160 73,534 148,000