Spanish language in New Zealand

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]}

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

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%

See also

• Spanish New Zealanders