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Kōrero: Te reo Māori – the Māori language

He pitihana mō te whakaatatanga o te reo ki runga pouaka whakaata

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Petition for Māori television

Ko 1978 te tau, kei te tūtaki ēnei tamariki o te kura o Mount Cook ki a Hemi Pōtatau o Ngāti Kahungunu me Ngāti Rakaipaaka, koia rā te kairangi o Te Rōpū Reo Māori i ōna rā. Kei ōna ringaringa he pitihana e karanga ana kia whakatūria he wāhanga mō te reo Māori ki runga pouaka whakaata. Tae rawa ki te paunga o te rau tau 1900, ko te pakanga mō te reo Māori ki te pouaka whakaata tētahi pakanga nui i roto i te whawhai nui mō te reo.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1978/2230/7

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, Te reo Māori – the Māori language – Language decline, 1900 to 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/41080/he-pitihana-mo-te-whakaatatanga-o-te-reo-ki-runga-pouaka-whakaata (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 13 March 2013, updated 1 September 2015.