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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 lea'aki 'i 'api, siasi (lot), mo e nofo-'a-kinga' which means 'the Tongan Lang...

Mālō e lelei - give Tongan a go this week.

Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders can recognise more than 1,000 te reo Māori 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.