LANGUAGE COMMISSION CEO: WE CAN HELP (fwd)

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LANGUAGE COMMISSION CEO: WE CAN HELP
Date: 24 July 2007
http://www.niufm.com/?t=3&View=FullStory&newsID=2226

Auckland 9am: The CEO of Te Taura Whiri says Pacific communities can look to
Maori for support in the battle to save indigenous languages.

Huhana Rokx says the models they've used to promote te reo in New Zealand
are working and  that they'd like to share this with communities like
Niuean, Tokelauns and the Cook Islands, the three nations most at risk of
losing their language.

A new survey out yesterday shows more Maori are now able to speak te reo.

Rokx says they've already started working with the Ministry of Pacific
Island Affairs on ways to preserve Pacific languages under threat.