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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.
The United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, where the overwhelming majority of native English speakers reside, do not have English as an official language de jure, but English is considered their de facto official language because it dominates in these countries. [citation needed]
Today, New Zealand enjoys particularly close relations with the United States and is one of its major non-NATO allies, [217] as well as with Australia, with a "Trans-Tasman" identity between citizens of the latter being common. [218] New Zealand is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement, known formally as the UKUSA Agreement.
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
The Austronesian languages (/ ˌ ɔː s t r ə ˈ n iː ʒ ən / AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). [2]
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 ...
Still today, Polynesian languages show strong similarity, particularly cognate words in their vocabulary; this includes culturally important words such as tapu, ariki, motu, fenua, kava, and tapa as well as *sawaiki, the mythical homeland for some of the cultures.
Map showing the distribution of language families; the pink color shows where Austronesian languages are spoken. This is a list of major and official Austronesian languages, a language family originating from Taiwan, that is widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia (Indonesia and Philippines) and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia and Madagascar.