Over three quarters of those spoken to said that they had suffered some form of punishment for speaking Maori at school. Despite the low number of people we came across able to speak or understand Maori well, forty percent of those interviewed said that Maori had been the first language they had understood. Many people, however, had lost their ability to speak the language later on in life.
Manawatū-Whanganui | Manawatu | 1970-79 | 5% of Māori children can speak te reo. (1970-75) | Story is by tangata whenua
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