New Zealand Sign Language in New Zealand

Speakers

22,986

Type

Location

New Zealand Sign Language in New Zealand

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

New Zealand Sign Language in New Zealand

Size

22,986

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

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Documentation: descriptions

Asynchronicity

Standardization

4. Users

Geographical distribution

Size / Number of users

Number of users

22986
Source
2018 Census
https://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz
Year
2018
Comments

Number of usual residents who responded they can hold a conversation about a lot of everyday things in New Zealand Sign Language.

Users within total population

0.50000
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

1
Source
2018 Census
https://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/
Year
2018
Comments
Number of usual residents in New Zealand is 4,699,755.
Number of usual residents who responded they can hold a conversation about a lot of everyday things in New Zealand Sign Language is 22,986.

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of young generations (< 15)

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of older generations (> 65)

Generational use

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion