Strength of spirit eases legacy of loss (fwd link)

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Strength of spirit eases legacy of loss

By RAWIRI TAONUI - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Maori Language Week (Te Wiki o Te Reo) is a time to celebrate the renaissance of
Maori language and consolidate its survival.

Te reo is one of 26 languages in the Polynesian subset of the Austronesian
linguistic group.

>From Madagascar and Taiwan through the Malayan Peninsula, Philippine and
Indonesian archipelagos, Oceania, Micronesia, Melanesia and across the
Polynesia Triangle to Easter Island, they were the most widespread languages in
the world a millennium before English obliterated the indigenous map with
imperial pink.

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