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Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
It's Māori language week in New Zealand, and to get into the spirit, I've been spending some quality time over at the interactive quizzes and conversation sections of the Kōrero Māori website. (The fact that my inner Flash geek is amazed at the design and interactivity of the games has nothing to do with it, really.)
The campaign to revive Māori has been long and considerably successful; there are many popular Māori language radio stations, T.V. channels, language schools, etc. These efforts can lend pragmatic ideas to those trying to revive other endangered languages. However, if the Ethnologue report is any indication, there is still a lot of work to be done to increase the number of native speakers in Māori. (ELHAM)
July 25, 2007
