Te Pakanga a Aotearoa mō te reo Māori: E pōhiritia ana ngā kōrero
I te motu e whakarite ana ki te whakanui i te 50 tau i te whakatakotoranga o Te Petihana o te reo Māori ki te whare pāremata, e tonoa ana ngā kirirarau o Aotearoa kia tukuna mai e rātou ā rātou kōrero mō te oke e ora ai te reo Māori.
"Hei te Wenerei, hei te 12pm, ka whakanuia e mātou ngā toa reo Māori mā te whakanui i te reo Māori, ahakoa te wāhi. Ka hoki mātou ki te whare pāremata, ka whakanui ai i te hunga i nonoi kia panonitia aua āhuatanga, i ngā tau e 50 ki muri."
"10 noa ngā tau i mua i te petihana, i te aukatingia tonutia te kuhunga a te Māori ki ētahi toa hokohoko me ētahi wāhi tūmatanui. I whakawhiua ngā tamariki mēnā i rangona rātou e kōrero Māori ana, ā, i neke atu i te 50 tau te roa o te patunga o ētahi tāmariki. Me te aha, i kino te karawhiua o te reo Māori e te kaikiri mataaho me te kaikiri matahuna, ā, i ngā tau e 50 ki muri, he ruarua noa iho ngā tamariki i taea e rātou tō rātou ake reo te kōrero."
“Kua hia nei ngā whakareanga e pakanga ana kia ora ai te reo Māori i ngā tāone iti iho, tae noa ki ngā tāone nui katoa. I ā tātou pouaka whakaata, i ō tātou kura, i ō tātou wāhi mahi, ā, mātua rā i ō tātou kāinga. Me kōrero, me pupuri ēnei kōrero,” tā te Toihau o Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, tā Ahorangi Rawinia Higgins.
“E hiahia ana mātou kia uiuitia e ngā rangatahi o Aotearoa ō rātou mātua, ō rātou pākeke: “I pēhea a Aotearoa nō rātou e pakeke ake ana? He aha ngā wāhi i kitea, i rangona rānei te reo?”
“He nui ngā whakanuinga hira i tēnei tau, me te aha, e āki ana mātou i te takitahi, i te whānau me te hapori kia tukuna mai tētahi kōrero, tētahi maharatanga, tētahi manatunga rānei e āwhinatia ai te kōrerotia o ngā pakanga mō te reo taketake o Aotearoa.”
Ko ngā whakanuinga hira i te tau 2022 mō te reo Māori:
- Kua 50 tau i te whakatakotoranga o te petihana o te reo Māori;
- Kua 35 tau i te whakamana o te reo Māori hei reo ā-ture; ā,
- Kua 35 tau i te whakatuwheratanga o Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori.
Ko ētahi atu whakanuinga i tēnei tau:
- Kua 50 tau i te tīmatatanga o Te Matatini (he ingoa anō tōna i taua wā);
- Kua 40 tau i te kōhanga reo tuatahi; hei āpititanga atu, ka whakanuia e ētahi o ngā reo irirangi ā-iwi ā rātou ake whakanuinga ā-tau.
- Hei tēnei tau, hei te tau 2022, ka kitea tuatahitia te rā whakatā ā-ture o Matariki, he kaupapa kua neke atu i te 20 tau a Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori e kōkirikiri ana.
“Kāore i rerekē i ngā tau maha nei te whakataunga me tautoko tonu e Aotearoa whānui te reo e ora ai, e puāwai ai. E mōhio ana mātou ka ngaro te reo i te whakareanga kotahi, ā, e toru ngā whakareanga e ora ai anō ia: E haere ana te wā.
“Kua nui atu te hunga e whakapono ana he wāhi nui tō te reo Māori ki tō rātou tuakiritanga i Aotearoa nei, ā, me whakahīhī tātou ki te kōrero Māori. I ngā tau e 35 ki muri, i nui te hunga i wehi i te whakamanatanga ā-ture o te reo Māori i Aotearoa, kei noho wehewehe tātou. Engari i te tau 2022, ko tā te reo he whakakotahi. Koia tonu te reo o Aotearoa me te hunga e whakapae ana ko Aotearoa tō rātou kāinga.”
“Mai i te wā i rāhuitia te reo, ki ngā porotēhi me ngā petihana, ki ngā kerēme o Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ki ngā kerēme tauutuutu i kawea ki te Rūnanga Ruānuku o te Kuīni: i pakangatia te pakanga o te reo Māori puta noa i ngā tēpu kai i ngā kāinga, tae noa atu ki ngā kōti matua rawa o te ao. He taonga te reo hei poipoi mā Aotearoa, haere ake nei.”
Ka whakarewatia e Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori tana pūnaha matihiko mō te tau 2022 ā tērā marama.
12pm Wednesday 14 September 2022
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