Spanish language in New Zealand explained

Script:	Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Familycolor:	Indo-European
Fam2:	Italic
Fam3:	Latino-Faliscan
Fam4:	Romance
Fam5:	Western
Fam6:	Ibero-Romance
Fam7:	West Iberian
Fam8:	Castilian
Fam9:	Spanish
Ancestor:	Old Latin
Ancestor2:	Classical Latin
Ancestor3:	Vulgar Latin
Ancestor4:	Old Spanish
Ancestor5:	Early Modern Spanish
Isoexception:	dialect
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
align=left	1996	10 692	0.2885%
align=left	2001^[6]	14 676	0.3789%
align=left	2006^[7]	21 645	0.5202%
align=left	2013^[8]	26 979	0.6023%

See also

• Spanish New Zealanders

Notes and References

1. https://teara.govt.nz/en/latin-americans Latin Americans – Te Ara Encyclopedia
2. https://teara.govt.nz/en/latin-americans/page-1 1. – Latin Americans – Te Ara Encyclopedia
3. https://teara.govt.nz/en/other-western-europeans Other Western Europeans – Te Ara Encyclopedia
4. https://teara.govt.nz/en/other-western-europeans/page-2 2. – Other Western Europeans – Te Ara Encyclopedia
5. https://teara.govt.nz/en/other-western-europeans/page-3 3. – Other Western Europeans – Te Ara Encyclopedia
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20081119203409/http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/AE206501-0E75-4B38-84C9-9C06A05EA9D2/0/CulturalTable12.xls Language Spoken (Total Responses)(1)(2) by Sex "for the Census Usually Resident Population Count, 1996 and 2001"
7. http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/1C81F07B-28C6-4DDD-8EBA-80C592E8022A/0/20languagespokentotalresponse.xls Language Spoken (Total Responses)(1) for the Census Usually Resident Population Count, 2006
8. http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/data-tables/total-by-topic.aspx Language Spoken for the 2013 Census totals by topic