What languages do New Zealand speak?

What languages do New Zealand speak?

Māori
EnglishNew Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand/Official languages

According to the 2013 Census, English and Te Reo Māori are the most widely spoken languages in New Zealand. However, as Table 1 shows, in 2013 there far more people speaking English (3,819,969 people or 90 per cent of the total population) than Te Reo Māori (148,395 people or 3 per cent of the population).

What are other languages spoken in Australia?

The Australian population as at the 2016 Census was 23.4 million people, with one in five Australians now speaking a language other than English at home. The top five are Mandarin (2.5%), Arabic (1.4%), Cantonese (1.2%), Vietnamese (1.2%) and Italian (1.2%).

Does Australia have its own language?

Although English is not Australia’s official language, it is effectively the de facto national language and is almost universally spoken. Nevertheless, there are hundreds of Aboriginal languages, though many have become extinct since 1950, and most of the surviving languages have very few speakers.

How many languages do people speak in Australia?

Added to this percentage is the 1 percent of the population that speak indigenous languages, of which there are at least 50 languages spoken today. What Does Diversity of Language Mean to Australia? In 2016, more than 300 languages were identified as being spoken in Australian homes.

What are the languages spoken in New Zealand?

Table 1 also shows that the percentage of the population able to speak a language other than English, Te Reo Māori, New Zealand Sign Language and Samoan has grown; from 10 per cent of the population in 2001 to 17 per cent in 2013.

Is the English spoken in New Zealand similar to Australia?

Although New Zealand lies over 1,000 miles away, much of the English spoken there is similar to that of Australia.

How many people in New Zealand speak Maori?

In contrast, the native Māori language is spoken by only 148,395 people, accounting for only 3.73% of New Zealand’s population. Out of a population of 500,000 Māori people, only 70,000 speak Māori as their native language.