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In New Zealand, Hello Has Become Kia Ora. Will That Save the Māori Language? Time 12/21/2020 Amy Gunia © Marty Melville AFP/Getty Images People walk past Maori language signs in Wellington, New Zealand, on Sept. 13, 2018. Kenny Williams began to study the Māori language during his second COVID-19 lockdown. Williams, 36, lives alone and the isolation made him yearn to feel closer to his identity as an indigenous New Zealander an identity he had spent most of his childhood trying to hide. After he ordered some Māori language books, he found his studies helped him build a connection to his Māori history. “I didn’t know it was a gap that was missing in my life,” he says.

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