Prof Rawinia Higgins tells the Guardian that te reo Māori is under threat from the rightwing coalition despite long-running efforts to revive itNew Zealand’s Māori language commissioner has described government policies to limit the use of the Indigenous language in the public service as “a risk” to the half-century effort to revive it.“Any affront to the efforts that we have been making has to be taken seriously,” the commissioner, Prof Rawinia Higgins, told the Guardian. “We’re seeing a reaction – only from a small corner of people, but enough that we don’t want that to snowball.” Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/maori-language-at-risk-government-policies-new-zealand
Author : Jamie Tahana
Publish date : 2024-09-22 23:43:32
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Māori language ‘at risk’ as a result of government policies, commissioner says
