Spanish language in New Zealand

Spanish language in New Zealand
Spanish language in New Zealand
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Spanish Spanish language in New Zealand; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	es-NZ

The Spanish language began to be used in New Zealand with some regularity from the 1960s and early 1970s, mainly by immigrants from the Spanish-speaking countries of South America and some from Central America, Mexico, Spain, and Gibraltar.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Statistics

Spanish speakers in New Zealand
Census	Quantity	Percentage
1996	10 692	0.2885%
2001^[6]	14 676	0.3789%
2006^[7]	21 645	0.5202%
2013^[8]	26 979	0.6023%

References

[1] Latin Americans – Te Ara Encyclopedia

[2] 1. – Latin Americans – Te Ara Encyclopedia

[3] Other Western Europeans – Te Ara Encyclopedia

[4] 2. – Other Western Europeans – Te Ara Encyclopedia

[5] 3. – Other Western Europeans – Te Ara Encyclopedia

[6] Language Spoken (Total Responses)(1)(2) by Sex "for the Census Usually Resident Population Count, 1996 and 2001" Statistics New Zealand.

[7] Language Spoken (Total Responses)(1) for the Census Usually Resident Population Count, 2006 Statistics New Zealand.

[8] Language Spoken for the 2013 Census totals by topic Statistics New Zealand.

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