New Zealand English

New Zealand English (NZE) is a regional dialect of English.

Like Australian English, its closest dialectal relative, and from which it is, to a large extent, derived, it's relatively new. The first English-speaking settlers, Australian rather than British, arrived in 1792. This means that, apart from Falkland Islands English, New Zealand English is the newest variety of native speaker English. One characteristic of NZE, its vocabulary, makes it uniquely different from other English dialects, as it has incorporated many words from the Maori language, te reo Maori.