However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

which has introduced policies seen as undermining their rights – such as rollbacks on Maori language use in government and changes to treaty interpretations. The open letter urged the King to ...

“Aotearoa”, meaning "land of the long white cloud" in te reo Māori (the Māori language), has become increasingly prominent in New Zealand. The conflict highlights the tensions that have ...

“The heartbeat of Kashiwa,” “Now is the time, this is the moment,” shouted the young players in the Maori language on Sept. 24. For the children who dream of one day playing in the Rugby ...

and I am very pleased that we have a language which is used in so many countries around the world. But Maori is also an official language in Aotearoa (NZ). Maori people used to be forbidden to use ...

The speaker of New Zealand 's Parliament told lawmakers he would not consider further complaints about the use of the country's Maori name, Aotearoa, in Parliament, after one lawmaker sought to have ...

The collaborative single appears on Marlon Williams' Te Whare Tīwekaweka, an album recorded entirely in the indigenous New Zealand Māori language. By Tyler Jenke Two of the most prominent names ...

Using structured literacy to teach te reo Māori is more about an educational ideology than about understanding the essence of ...