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Reo, 'Ōlelo, Gagana (Pacific Languages)

This topic covers the preservation and active promotion of the following Pacific languages: Samoa, Kiribati, Cook Islands, Rotuman, Tuvalu, Fiji, Tonga, Niue, and Tokelau. SCIS no. 5409493

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Sāmoan Language Week songs

Sāmoan Language Week songs

Jan-Hai presents a Sāmoan Language Week story session at Bromley School, 28 May 2018. File Reference: 2018-05-28-IMG_5965 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries

Onehunga High School students perfroming at the 2015 ASB Polyfest.

Onehunga High School students perfroming at the 2015 ASB Polyfest.

View of a traditional Niuean dance performed by Onehunga High School Students at the 2015 ASB Polyfest. Niue stage.

Pacific Language Weeks

Celebrate the rich languages of the Pacific with the Pacific Language Weeks series from the Ministry of Pacific Peoples. It includes vibrant community events, learning initiatives, downloadable pos...

Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week

Samoa Language Week - Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa celebrates the third most spoken language in New Zealand.

Teaching and learning Gagana Sāmoa

Tālofa lava! Welcome to the online environment developed to support the teaching of Gagana Sāmoa.

Samoan pronunciation tool

Tool to help you with the pronunciation of the Samoan alphabet

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa 2018 - Auckland Museum

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa 2018 - Auckland Museum

Talofa Lava! This week is Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa - Samoan Language Week and in celebration we are sharing a few awesome phrases for you to learn and practise. ⠀ Here is our Museum colleage Larry ...

Samoan language class

Samoan language class

Children at the Autaumafai Fanau Kerisiano Samoan language nest at St Paul's Trinity Pacific Church. Pictured, from left, Tululautu Puaavase, Etenauaga Siu, Asoono Siu, Leuaina Andrews and her moth...

Samoan greetings

Learn how to greet people in the Samoan language.

Rotuman Language Week

Celebrate Rotuman Language Week with resources and ideas for all age groups.

Rotuman Language Week resources

Resources from the Christchurch City Libraries to help you celebrate Rotuman Language Week 2023

A diaspora rallies to reawaken the language of Rotuma, pop. 2000

It's a small island of only about 2000 people partway between Fiji's main islands and Tuvalu, but despite its size the Fiji dependency of Rotuma has its own unique language...

Rare language of Rotuma

The Rotuma language struggles for survival.

Auckland Rotuman Fellowship Group Incorporated

Resources by the Auckland Rotuman community

Haia! An introduction to Vagahau Niue

Teachers’ guide and support materials for learning Vagahau Niue.

Niuean language week at Auckland Museum

Samples and snapshots of Niue materials in the form of writing, photographs, handicrafts and collection objects from the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Niue Language Week resources

Niue Language Week resources and ideas for all ages

Language week: Niueans in NZ encourage youth to revive language

Niueans across New Zealand are celebrating their culture and language this week, and urging young Niueans to help revive the language.

Playing lafo

Men in Tonga playing lafo.

Tuvalu Language Week Vaiaso o te ‘Gana Tuvalu

Tuvalu Language Week celebrates the culture and language of the more than 3,500 people of Tuvaluan heritage who live in New Zealand.

Tuvalu weaver ‘driven’ to keep art, language alive

Award-winning Tuvalu artist Lakiloko Keakea has become the first artist from the small Pacific nation to hold a solo art exhibition in New Zealand. Indira Stewart reports.

Tuvalu Language Week all about resilience - minister

The theme of New Zealand's Tuvalu Language Week is a call to resilience according to the Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio.

Tonga Language Week resources

Tonga Language Week resources and ideas for all ages

Lea faka-Tonga resources

Explore and discover lea faka-Tonga through the Museum of New Zelaand Te Papa Tongarewa

How to speak lea faka Tonga (Tongan language) with Tutu on the Beach

How to speak lea faka Tonga (Tongan language) with Tutu on the Beach

Our Tutu on the Beach tokos, Josh and Nox take time out from their Niu Initiative "Young Pacific Change Makers" workshop to teach us a few Tongan phrases and words for Tonga Language Week here in N...

Tongan Language Week resource

Download this resource to learn Tongan words, phrases, and pronunciation, and explore aspects of Tongan culture.

New dual language novel hopes to revitalise Tongan language

A 72-year-old author has released his first dual language book in a series in English and Tongan in hope of revitalising the Tongan language.

O le key o lou atanu'u o lou gagana lea

Giving back to family and building up confidence are just a couple of reasons why young Samoans in Aotearoa New Zealand are learning their language.

Tokelau Language Week resources

Tokelau Language Week resources and ideas for age groups

Tokelauans focus on language amid Covid-19 challenges

Preserving cultural identity and well-being is the focus of this year's Tokelau Language Week in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Annie Crummer - Language

Annie Crummer - Language

Our very own Kuki-Airani Soul-Diva Annie Crummer's debut song Language! Starting her music career as a child-performer, Annie Crummer released her first single at age 16 and as an established solo ...

Cook Islands Language Week resources

Cook Islands Language Week resources and ideas for all ages.

Learn Cook Islands Maori for Cook Islands Language Week #1 - Auckland Museum

Learn Cook Islands Maori for Cook Islands Language Week #1 - Auckland Museum

Kia orāna! It's Te ‘Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki ’Āirani: Cook Islands Language Week. Throughout the week we'll be sharing some Cook Islands Māori phrases for you to practice! Keep checking back to ...

Cook Islands dictionary

Online bilingual dictionary of the Cook Island languages

Learning with Nei Mauri

Learning resource designed for beginners to the Kiribati language and implemented by Kiribati Aotearoa Diaspora Directorate as a part of the launch of Kiribati Language Week 2020.

Kiribati Language Week - Auckland Museum

Kiribati Language Week - Auckland Museum

Ko na mauri! Yesterday we welcomed some of the Kiribati community in to connect with their taonga as part of our Pacific Collections Access Project and to celebrate Kiribati Independence Day and th...

More work beyond Pacific language weeks - NZ minister

New Zealand's Pacific Peoples minister says more needs to be done to expand the use of Pacific languages beyond language weeks.

NZ govt to launch project to empower Pasifika

The New Zealand government is to launch its first 'Pacific Vision' project in nearly two decades, with a focus on empowering Pasifika people.

Niue language in crisis - academic

An academic says the Niue language is at crisis levels with New Zealand-born Niueans not speaking the language forefathers.

Decline in NZ born Pacific language speakers

A New Zealand academic says the declining numbers of New Zealand born Pacific language speakers shows the languages are facing extinction.

Talanoa about the future of Pacific languages

Pasifika in Aotearoa New Zealand are being urged to take part in a survey, and share the importance and value they place on their own languages.

Chinese university to offer courses in seven Pacific languages

A Chinese university is to teach a number of Pacific Island languages, including Vagahau Niue.

Linguist says scientists have a lot to learn from Pacific languages

Scientists have a lot to learn from Pacific languages, according to a linguist from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

NZ Pacific language courses expand online

Pasifika Education Centre has received $US2.5 million over four years to provide free community Pacific language courses online.

Schools teaching Pacific languages in New Zealand - By language, as at 1 July 2023, number of schools

Schools teaching Pacific languages in New Zealand - By language, as at 1 July 2023, number of schools

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Students learning Pacific languages in state schools in New Zealand - By authority and immersion level, as at 1 July 2023, number of students

Students learning Pacific languages in state schools in New Zealand - By authority and immersion level, as at 1 July 2023, number of students

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Everyday words and phrases, 1977

Everyday words and phrases, 1977

In 1977 the National Council of Women of New Zealand published a booklet of everyday words and phrases, for Pacific people who recently arrived in New Zealand. It was aimed “towards the women who,...

Identity, language, culture: Flavour of the month, and then what?

Opinion - Writer and teacher Leki Jackson-Bourke questions what else can be done to keep Pacific mother tongues alive in addition to language weeks in Aotearoa.

Coco Kids Language Learning

Coco Kids Language Learning

Tagata Tangata 6 - Ngāi Tātou / Family (Episode Six)

Tagata Tangata 6 - Ngāi Tātou / Family (Episode Six)

This final instalment of the 1993 series about Polynesia looks to the present, and the future. The episode documents the grave loss incurred by the introduction of Western peoples and their ideolog...

Pasifika dual languages books

Access to Pacific dual language books designed to help support early language and literacy learning.

Digital dialects

A Samoan language learning site.

O le Tulāfale (the orator) – language wayfinder of Sāmoa

Read through an informative piece written by the Curator Pacific Histories and Cultures Sean Mallon over at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The piece looks at the material culture of t...

It’s never too late to learn your mother language

It’s never too late to learn your mother language

The chief executive of the Centre for Pacific Languages looks back on 46 years of nurturing Pacific languages in Aotearoa.

Language booklet launch

Language booklet launch

Louisa Crawley (left) and Mrs Caroline Leota with a language booklet to assist Pacific Islanders.

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