THE MAORI LANGUAGE
Sir-In The Listener of September 10 "Ika Pirau" asks "can you do anything to stop the awful imitation of the Maori language? Yes — something can be done; it should have beén done three generations ago. It must be undertaken in the immediate future. The only way of overcoming this national problem (from a cultural point of view it is nothing less), is by teaching in our primary schools a few elementary lessons in the Maori language. By that, I do not mean teaching Maori as a language, but merely the alphabet, vowel sounds, consonants, and word building, etc. As Maori is a phonetic language, this would be simple and interesting to pupils from Standard 3 upwards. This would enable our children to read, write and pronounce Maori place names correctly. No more is necessary for the majority of punile -~
DAVID
MACDONALD
(Kawakawa).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 224, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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145THE MAORI LANGUAGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 224, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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