Te Reo Maori the indigenous language of this nation most of us live in, but what we hadn't known is that this language was actually dying. This happened because they changed they attitudes towards learning their own language.Because of this everything changed and people thought the language was worthless teaching. I found this interesting that actor Eds Eramiha found it hard to imagine the scene that just happened 20 years ago, he also said he never would’ve called Te Reo Maori a dying language.
This miss convenient event took place around the mid 1980s. At the exact time of the 1900s Te Reo Maori was banned in schools around New Zealand for much of this year, but around the 1980s many Maori people that lived on the countryside packed and moved into the cities. It was when they moved they had to speak english in the city. I never thought that the Maori language would have been that troubled back than, because living in the native country a lot of people know the language and a lot of people already know how to speak it which is why I would’ve never thought it was a dying language. Til I kept reading though the story I found out that the language was so troubled only ⅕ were able to speak this magnificent language. Then things changed people started learning Te Reo Maori and the Language became Popular again.
People didn’t just learn it outside of school, schools where now allowing teachers to teach Te Reo Maori. Not just to speak it but also to sing Waiata which mean songs which are treasuring to the language. I thought this story was quite interesting because Te Reo Maori is a very easy language to speak and also to learn and to know that it was almost gone is just so sad but I’m glad we still have the Language in our world.
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