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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.
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
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]
Spanish language in New Zealand This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, at 20:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...
New Zealand English blunted new settlers' patterns of speech into it. [51] New Zealand English differs from other varieties of English in vocabulary, accent, pronunciation, register, grammar [51] and spelling. [52] Other than English, the most commonly spoken European languages in New Zealand are French and German. [53]
English (New Zealand English) is the dominant language spoken by New Zealanders, and a de facto official language of New Zealand. According to the 2013 New Zealand census, [85] 96.1% of New Zealanders spoke English. The country's de jure official languages are Māori (Te Reo) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). Other languages are also used ...
In Māori and in many other Polynesian languages, iwi literally means ' bone ' [8] derived from Proto-Oceanic *suRi₁ meaning ' thorn, splinter, fish bone '. [9] Māori may refer to returning home after travelling or living elsewhere as "going back to the bones" — literally to the burial-areas of the ancestors.