Waking a sleeping language – our plan to revive the speaking of ta rē Moriori
- Written by: John Middleton, Doctoral Candidate in Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, University of Auckland
Rēkohu/Chatham Island Moriori c.1910.W Rerwick, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen is a language extinct and when is it merely dormant? There are certainly languages that have passed over that line, and many remain threatened today. But what of those in the twilight zone – can we revive them, and what would that look like?
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