{"id":13272,"date":"2020-01-27T09:42:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/27\/wikipedia-maori-placenames-accents-macrons-te-reo-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:42:46","slug":"wikipedia-urged-to-add-accents-to-maori-placenames-amid-resurgence-in-te-reo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13272","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia urged to add accents to M\u0101ori placenames amid resurgence in te reo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Success of the petition would lead to the inclusion of macrons on about 300 places in New Zealand <\/p>\n<p>As a resurgence in the M\u0101ori language continues to gain traction, a homegrown campaign is starting for one of the world\u2019s largest websites to follow suit, and adopt the use of macrons, a cornerstone of M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch man Axel Wilke said the use of macrons in New Zealand English is changing fast, with print and television media, as well as much of central and local government routinely adopting them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/27\/wikipedia-maori-placenames-accents-macrons-te-reo-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Success of the petition would lead to the inclusion of macrons on about 300 places in New Zealand As a resurgence in the M\u0101ori language continues to gain traction, a homegrown campaign is starting for one of the world\u2019s largest websites to follow suit,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}