{"id":66896,"date":"2024-09-23T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T23:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/23\/maori-language-at-risk-government-policies-new-zealand"},"modified":"2024-09-23T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T23:43:32","slug":"maori-language-at-risk-as-a-result-of-government-policies-commissioner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66896","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori language \u2018at risk\u2019 as a result of government policies, commissioner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Rawinia Higgins tells the Guardian that te reo M\u0101ori is under threat from the rightwing coalition despite long-running efforts to revive it<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori language commissioner has described government policies to limit the use of the Indigenous language in the public service as \u201ca risk\u201d to the half-century effort to revive it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny affront to the efforts that we have been making has to be taken seriously,\u201d the commissioner, Prof Rawinia Higgins, told the Guardian. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing a reaction \u2013 only from a small corner of people, but enough that we don\u2019t want that to snowball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/23\/maori-language-at-risk-government-policies-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Rawinia Higgins tells the Guardian that te reo M\u0101ori is under threat from the rightwing coalition despite long-running efforts to revive itNew Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori language commissioner has described government policies to limit the use of the Indigeno&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4421,"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":[41,1758,1967,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-language","category-languages","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\/66896","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\/4421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66897,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66896\/revisions\/66897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}