Kenny Williams began to study the Māori language during his second COVID-19 lockdown. Williams, 36, lives alone and the isolation made him yearn to feel closer to his identity as an indigenous New ...

Jaedyn Randell remembers being a kid sitting in the back of her mum's car, singing along to her favourite Disney songs. "My dream was to be a Disney princess," she says. Now, she actually is one — ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ngahawi Apanui My mum is the hero of my story. She's incredible because my mother, a solo mum with 10 ...

Before COVID-19, my colleagues Dr. Maureen Muller and Tai Ahu and I conducted research for Te Mātāwai focusing on factors that enable and inhibit Māori from learning and using te reo Māori. More than ...

The collaborative single appears on Marlon Williams' Te Whare Tīwekaweka, an album recorded entirely in the indigenous New Zealand Māori language. By Tyler Jenke Two of the most prominent names in New ...

This week is Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, or Māori Language Week. It is always a week of celebration and jubilance, giving visibility to a language that, within mainstream New Zealand, is restricted to ...

Te reo Māori has had to fight for recognition after generations of suppression, while English has long dominated life in Aotearoa, professor Rawinia Higgins says. Last week, Parliament passed the ...

“Our goal for Kupu is that it’s popularizing a selection of words from the Māori language so that 100 words is 1,000 words in a couple years.” The internet’s first code was written in English, and as ...

This article is an edited version Mā wai te reo e kōrero? broadcast on 95bFM. I am Pākehā, however my first language was te reo Māori. 23 years later and most of my whānau, both Pākeha and Māori, are ...

Ko tēnei te Wiki o te Reo Māori – it’s Māori Language Week. It’s been 52 years since the landmark moment on September 14 1972, when Hana Te Hemara and her fellow activists from Ngā Tamatoa, Te Reo ...