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Rotuman Language Week, 7–13 May [14] New Zealand Sign Language Week, from 2 May; National Organic Week - 1-7 May; Youth Week, 21–29 May; Samoan Language Week, 30 May–5 June [14] Coeliac Awareness Week, 18–24 June; NZ Volunteering Week 19–25 June 2016 [15] Kiribati Language Week, 9–15 July [14] Cook Islands Language Week, 30 July–5 ...
Māori Language Week is part of a broader movement to revive the Māori language. It has been celebrated since 1975 and is currently spearheaded by Te Puni Kōkiri (the Ministry of Māori Development) and the Māori Language Commission , with many organisations including schools, libraries, and government departments participating.
The Babylonians invented the actual [clarification needed] seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (dies Solis, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later. [2] In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week, but in many countries it is counted as the second day of the ...
144 languages. Afrikaans; ... 2002 renaming of Turkmen months and days of week; F. Feria This page was last edited on 20 May 2020, at 00:10 (UTC). ...
Production has begun on “Tangata Pai,” a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama that claims to be the first primetime series in which 30% of the dialog will be in the Maori language. The eight ...
Pages in category "Māori language" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. ... Maori Language Act 1987;
Māori writer Hare Hongi (Henry Stowell) used macrons in his Maori-English Tutor and Vade Mecum of 1911, [97] as does Sir Āpirana Ngata (albeit inconsistently) in his Maori Grammar and Conversation (7th printing 1953). Once the Māori language was taught in universities in the 1960s, vowel-length marking was made systematic.
Māori Language Day is observed annually on 14 September. Ngā Tamatoa presented a petition to parliament on 14 September 1972 calling for Te Reo Māori to be introduced in primary schools throughout New Zealand .