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November 21, 2023 | News
Push on to awaken ta rē Moriori
An Auckland University linguist says the Moriori language is not dead, only sleeping, and it can be woken up.
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November 20, 2023 | Paakiwaha
John Middleton | Pofessional Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Student in the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts
Ta rē Moriori, the language of the Chatham Islands, is one of New Zealand’s indigenous languages but has no native speakers, something linguist John Middleton and the Hokotehi Moriori Trust would like to change.
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