New Zealand

Extensive List of Languages of New Zealand: Spoken and Extinct Languages

English
[eng] 3,210,000 in New Zealand (1987). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English

Maori
[mri] 60,000 in New Zealand (Fishman 1991). 100,000 understand it but do not speak it (1995 Maori Language Commission). Population total all countries: 60,260. Ethnic population: 530,000 (2002 Honolulu Advertiser). Far north, North Island, east coast. Also in United States. Alternate names: New Zealand Maori. Dialects: North Auckland, South Island, Taranaki, Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Rotorua-Taupo, Moriori. Formerly fragmented into regional dialects, some of which diverged quite radically from what became the standard dialect. Lexical similarity: 71% with Hawaiian [haw], 57% with Samoan [smo]. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, East, Central, Tahitic

New Zealand Sign Language
[nzs] Alternate names: NZSL. Classification: Deaf sign language

Pitcairn-Norfolk
[pih] Alternate names: Pitcairn English. Classification: Creole, English based, Pacific

:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/