Punjabi New Zealanders
Panjābī Nīyūzīlaenḍar | |
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| Total population | |
| 34,227 (2018) 0.73% of the population | |
| Languages | |
| Punjabi · English | |
| Religion | |
| 79.7% Sikhism^ 5.2% No religion 4.6% Hinduism 3.9% Islam 3.3% Christianity | |
| 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.
According to the 2018 New Zealand census, there were 34,227 Punjabi-speaking individuals in the country. Punjabi was the second most commonly spoken South Asian language in New Zealand after Hindi, and the 14th most common overall.
New Zealand has a historical and growing Sikh community, most of whom originate from Punjab. 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, and some of them married local Māori women, whose offspring became known as Māori Indians.