With creative thinking—and some help from Wikipedia. ANIMALS. ... Māori language scholar Tamati Reedy traveled to Hawai‘i for a lecture and to spread word of the newly established Kohanga Reo.

Rescuing te reo Māori. Māori revitalization efforts began in earnest in the late 1970s. The first kōhanga reo was opened in 1982, and te reo Māori was made an official language under the Maori ...

The Wednesday global premiere will be accompanied by “Moana 2 Reo Māori,” a special release Thursday in theaters in New Zealand, featuring voiceovers in the indigenous Polynesian language.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori runs from September 11 to 17. Barber, who sits on the board of Te Taura Whiri (the Māori Language Commission), said there had been a trend of greater engagement across the ...

People forget that the bulk of people who signed the Māori language petition in 1972, at least 70% of them were non-Māori. And for me, the key to language revitalisation is to forgive.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — On the eve of New Zealand’s Māori language celebration week, the country’s right-wing political leaders ordered public agencies to stop affirmative action policies ...

Te reo Māori advocate Hēmi Kelly did not always have his reo. It is something, like many Māori, that he had to work on. "We had bits and pieces in the whare, but we didn't have a lot of reo ...

Pop singer Lorde has released an EP in te reo Maori, the Native language in her home country of New Zealand. Maori artists say that this is just one branch of a larger movement to revive the language.

Māori Language Moment: Be the 1 in a million Honour the past, keep ourselves safe now and prepare for the future together! The Maori Language Commission has redesigned Māori Language Week so ...

The first kōhanga reo was opened in 1982, and te reo Māori was made an official language under the Maori Language Act 1987. Despite these efforts, there have been ongoing concerns about the ...