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Endangered Languages Week lends speakers’ voices to languages almost silenced

SUNDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2011 19:15	 VALLARI GUPTE
New Zealand

Linguistics doctoral candidate Andrea Muru said her father’s first
language is Maori, and she can’t speak it.

Preserving Maori, an indigenous language from New Zealand, and in turn
other endangered languages, is important to Muru because she witnessed
a language almost dying out, she said.

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