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Kafataha: Strategies to preserve Pacific languages

Author: 
Sione Tu'itahi

Pacific languages face becoming extinct unless efforts are made to retain them. Two recommendations are made in this paper. First, incorporate Pacific languages and its knowledge into research and teaching at tertiary level education. Second, create or adopt an auxiliary universal language.

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Journal: AlterNative Volume 6, Issue 2 Special Supplement Issue Ngaahi Lea 'a e Kakai Pasifiki: Endangered Pacific Languages and Cultures

O tatou ō aga’i i fea?/`Oku tau ō ki fe?/Where are we heading?: Pasifika languages in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Author: 
John McCaffery
Author: 
Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery

This paper examines the health of the four largest Pasifika Languages in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ). It uses perspectives and interpretations from the researchers and writers who are at the same time, parents and grandparents of Pasifika children of Tongan, Samoan, and Cook Islands ancestry.

Published in:
Journal: AlterNative Volume 6, Issue 2 Special Supplement Issue Ngaahi Lea 'a e Kakai Pasifiki: Endangered Pacific Languages and Cultures