Reaching One Million Speakers of Te Reo Māori by 2040 w/ Christine Ammunson: September 16, 2022

This week has been Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, a centralised celebration of Te Reo Māori as well as a time to reflect on revitalisation efforts. 

However, Te Reo Māori deserves to be spoken year round, and efforts to revitalisation need to be taken by everyone throughout Aotearoa.

This is why, in 2019, the government and Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori, the Māori Language commission, launched a plan to see a million basic speakers of Te Reo by 2040.

To understand how the years since have shaped revitalisation efforts and what still needs to be done, Liam had a chat with Christine Ammunson from Taura Whiri about the goal.