Panjābī Nīyūzīlaenḍar | |
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| Total population | |
| 34,227 (2018) 0.73% of the population [1] | |
| Languages | |
| Punjabi · English | |
| Religion | |
| 79.7% Sikhism ^ 5.2% No religion 4.6% Hinduism 3.9% Islam 3.3% Christianity [2] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Indian New Zealanders · Pakistani New Zealanders | |
^ Include other religions |
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Punjabi New Zealanders are New Zealanders who are of Punjabi descent. Their ancestry originates wholly or partially in the Punjab region of South Asia, constituting a subgroup of Indian New Zealanders and Pakistani New Zealanders. [3]
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According to the 2018 New Zealand census, there were 34,227 Punjabi-speaking individuals in the country. [1] Punjabi was the second most commonly spoken South Asian language in New Zealand after Hindi, and the 14th most common overall. [1]
New Zealand has a historical and growing Sikh community, most of whom originate from Punjab. [4] [5] Punjabis were amongst the earliest immigrants from South Asia to arrive in New Zealand alongside the Gujaratis, during what was then the British Raj in the 1890s, [5] [6] and some of them married local Māori women, whose offspring became known as Māori Indians. [7]
