Tag: Maori language

The death of language

Posted by Tainui Stephens | Aug 23, 2026 | Reflections

“Our urgent challenge is to preserve language as a human activity. It’s not a job for a bot.” — Tainui Stephens

Te wero nui o te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Posted by Siena Yates | Oct 2, 2022 | Reo

“Every time I went to any Pākehā space, my reo disappeared.” — Siena Yates, on challenging herself to speak only Māori during Māori Language Week.

My pepeha is my world

Posted by Tainui Stephens | Jul 4, 2020 | Reo

“I knew of relations in Auckland, but not of any tribe. All that the old man had told us was he was from ‘up north’. Oh good, that narrows it down then!” — Tainui Stephens.

We owe so much to Huirangi

Posted by Andrew Robb | Apr 19, 2020 | Reflections

“Huirangi met every test of his strength, courage, integrity and leadership to secure the rights of future generations to the language of his tipuna.” — Andrew Robb on Huirangi Waikerepuru.