FACT CHECK the language is not dying its taught in every school and has never been used so much in the last 200 years as it is now just political point scoring
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FACT CHECK: te reo is taught at a basic “2nd language” level in most schools and while more people have a little proficiency very few speak it fluently. I sincerely hope the tide is turning and more use on public media is helpful. So are decisions like this. Kia kaha, PM!
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Media Cindy
#lookatme#lookatme Languages should be spoken in the home so I am assuming both@jacindaardern and Clarke are both bilingual? -
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using your child to score political points while setting crown law on rapped drugged and tortured NZ children at the
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New Zealand Govt tortured boys and girls as young as 8 with ECT to body parts and refuses rehab and compo sohttps://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/un-involved-in-manawatu-abuse-investigation.html …
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the survivors of
#lakealicenz ask the#theworld to not trade with#NZ until new Zealand adheres to a@UN ruling to provide child torture survivors with rehab and compo for the treatment they were put through
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Māori not Maori. And the language is not in decline, it's actually on the rise.
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The macron that wasnt there when TeReo was assembled in the 1930's is a symbol of how this irrelevant language has been seized by socialists who use it to hold gullible people in poverty with no escape The warrior culture of the Musket Wars is the main cause of incarceration now
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Battling to survive? You’re joking right? There are more prevalent speakers of te reo Māori now than there have been in the last 50 years.
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Actually, I believe te reo Maori usage is increasing. Perhaps your newspaper needs to get out of its colonial bubble?
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Where's your proof that the use if the language is increasing, C... is not a Maori word.
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If you’re going to cover this language story
@nytimes you might as well get the macron right. It is Māori not Maori.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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