Oficial language - English
Native languages
The pre-European inhabitants of the main islands of New Zealand all spoke Māori. A number of outlying islands and territories of New Zealand have their own native languages:
Cook Islands Maori is the official language of the Cook Islands.
Niuean is an official language of Niue (along with English).
Tokelaun is an official language of Tokelau (along with English).
Moriori language was the language of the Chatham Islands.
[edit] Immigrant languages
New Zealand has more speakers of several Polynesian languages resident in New Zealand than are resident in the country that language is native to (for example Niuean).[citation needed] It also has immigrants from other European and Asian countries who have brought their languages with them. According to Ethnologue, the largest groups are Samoan (50,000), "Rarotongan" (Cook Islands Maori, 25,000), Hindi and other Indian languages (26,200), Yue Chinese (20,000) and Arabic (4000).[3]