Why do new zealanders speak english

Table 2 includes all of the people who stated each language spoken, whether as their only language or as one of several languages. Where a person reported more than one language spoken, they have been counted in each applicable group. In order to be consistent with Table 1, Samoan has also been omitted from this group for clarity.

Table 2 is a breakdown of international languages with the highest number of responses at the time of Census , Census and Census Since , the total number of responses for people able to speak an international language has grown from , responses to , by This growth has largely been driven by the increasing number of people speaking Hindi, Northern Chinese and Sinitic.

Between and the number of Hindi speakers has tripled from 22, to 66, , and the number of speakers of Northern Chinese 26, to 52, people and Sinitic 22, to 42, people have almost doubled. Even words like jandals flip-flops and togs swimming costume might sound familiar to anyone from the northern hemisphere. So, is NZ English easy for native Englanders to understand? Especially for a tourist faced with words like munted or pakaru broken , dairy off-licence or small supermarket , stoked happy, pleased, relieved and bach small holiday home.

Wellies is the capital city, not protective footwear although wellies will come in handy in Wellies. Root is used mostly to refer to sex. Oh, and watch out for irony. Because spoken Kiwinglish is relentlessly tongue-in-cheek.

When we say one thing, we probably mean the other. And quite nice is generally used to refer to something that is the complete opposite. As is used ubiquitously to exaggerate any preceding adjective, like hungry as very hungry and beached as well and truly stuck or in difficult circumstances. The aye? Piss refers to alcoholic beverages generally beer. Harris May 06, To Statistics New Zealand by john luke April 16, More similar requests. Event history details. Are you the owner of any commercial copyright on this page?

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