<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Niue And Cook Island Māori Languages Threatened</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Voxy News Engine</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Wednesday, 22 September, 2010 - 13:09</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">NZ</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Niue and Cook Island Māori languages will disappear from New Zealand within a generation unless urgent action is taken say researchers from The University of Auckland.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The research by Faculty of Education Senior Lecturer John McCaffery and Postgraduate research student Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery was released today.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">"Our research indicates that Pacific Island languages in New Zealand show significant signs of language shift and loss, with several languages, especially Cook Island Māori and Niue language unlikely to survive unless we do something now," says Mr McCaffery.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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