{"id":39691,"date":"2021-12-11T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/11\/fighting-to-reclaim-our-language-maori-names-enjoy-surge-in-popularity"},"modified":"2021-12-11T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:00:47","slug":"fighting-to-reclaim-our-language-maori-names-enjoy-surge-in-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39691","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fighting to reclaim our language\u2019: M\u0101ori names enjoy surge in popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More parents in New Zealand are giving their babies indigenous names to foster links with their ancestry and culture<\/p>\n<p>Nine-month-old Ruataupare Te Ropuhina Florence Whiley-Whaipooti will grow up speaking the names of her ancestors. She will learn she comes from a line of strong Ng\u0101ti Porou women, and that her ancestor, who was a staunch tribal leader, is her name-sake. She will grow to understand that her M\u0101ori name links her to whenua (land), her whakapapa (genealogy) and her M\u0101oritanga (culture).<\/p>\n<p>Ruataupare is one of an increasing number of babies in New Zealand to be given a M\u0101ori name. While M\u0101ori have never stopped giving their children indigenous names, there has been a marked increase over the past 10 years \u2013 a near doubling of M\u0101ori names registered since 2011.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/11\/fighting-to-reclaim-our-language-maori-names-enjoy-surge-in-popularity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More parents in New Zealand are giving their babies indigenous names to foster links with their ancestry and cultureNine-month-old Ruataupare Te Ropuhina Florence Whiley-Whaipooti will grow up speaking the names of her ancestors. She will learn she com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-39691","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\/39691","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions\/39692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}