{"id":36833,"date":"2021-09-14T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T00:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/give-lorde-a-break-non-maori-must-speak-maori-for-it-to-survive"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T00:18:41","slug":"give-lorde-a-break-non-maori-must-speak-maori-for-it-to-survive-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36833","title":{"rendered":"Give Lorde a break. Non-M\u0101ori must speak M\u0101ori for it to survive | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we must wait for the perfect circumstances to speak or sing te reo, we may as well sign the language\u2019s death certificate<\/p>\n<p>My sisters and I are the first generation in almost 50 generations of our family who didn\u2019t grow up speaking te reo M\u0101ori as a first language. At first, that fact seems startling \u2013 a dramatic rupture from our past and the language that gives form to it. We are only three generations removed from ancestors who were M\u0101ori-speaking monoglots, ordering their lives and their world in a language almost foreign to their 21st-century descendants.<\/p>\n<p>But this break between the language our ancestors spoke and the language we speak \u2013 English \u2013 is the typical M\u0101ori experience: only one in five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> can hold a conversation in their ancestral language, and in the past three national surveys this number has fallen. That makes us anglophones a firm majority in our Indigenous populace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/give-lorde-a-break-non-maori-must-speak-maori-for-it-to-survive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we must wait for the perfect circumstances to speak or sing te reo, we may as well sign the language\u2019s death certificateMy sisters and I are the first generation in almost 50 generations of our family who didn\u2019t grow up speaking te reo M\u0101ori as a fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"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":[41,947,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lorde","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\/36833","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\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36834,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions\/36834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}