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People who can use New Zealand Sign Language, 2001, 2006 and 2013 censuses. ... Samoan is the second-most spoken language in Auckland and Porirua city.
Auckland is a major centre of overseas language education, with large numbers of foreign students (particularly East Asians) coming to the city for several months or years to learn English or study at universities – although numbers New Zealand-wide have dropped substantially since peaking in 2003. [152]
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]
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]
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]
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 the 2018 census, 22,987 people reported the ability to use New Zealand Sign Language. [4] It was declared one of New Zealand's official languages in 2006. [98] Samoan is the most widely spoken non-official language (2.2 percent), followed by "Northern Chinese" (including Mandarin; 2.0 percent), Hindi (1.5 percent) and French (1.2 percent). [4]