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The Māori Language Commissioner hopes more people will take part in a special Māori Language Week moment on Thursday at midday.

TVNZ celebrates Māori Language Week 2023 with exciting programs, including Moko The World and Origins Season Two.

Scoop Wellington provides news and views from Wellington, New Zealand

A Te Reo Māori Keyboard project has been launched by PB Tech with support from Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori and Te Puni Kōkiri. The Te Reo Māori Keyboard project will launch in Wellington on 15 September as part of Māori Language Week, and aims ...

Tongan will be sustainable if spoken at home, church, and in the wider community.

New Zealand's Tongan community are coming together to promote language sustainability this week, as Uike Lea Faka-Tonga - Tongan Language Week begins. "For our Pacific communities, language is more than just a means of communication. It's an important way to link generations and maintain connections to our ancestral roots," Barbara Edmonds said. "This year's focus is on language sustainability through the theme of 'E tu'uloa 'a e Lea Faka-Tonga 'o ka le...

Mālō e lelei - give Tongan a go this week.

Non-M&#257&#x3b;ori-speaking New Zealanders can recognise more than 1,000 te reo M&#257&#x3b;ori words or part-words, but only understand meanings of about 70, a new University of Canterbury study shows.

Whittaker’s has announced the return of its special edition Miraka Kirīmi (Creamy Milk) block, to mark Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week), set to

Can't speak te reo Māori? According to a new University of Canterbury study, New Zealanders who aren't fluent in the language can still identify a lot of Māori words based on how they look and sound.