Tama Potaka announces role appointments and reappointments.

New Zealand has so much to offer tourists, from scenic hikes (“tramps”) to beautiful beaches to world-class vineyards. But ...

I wrote about how pidgin originally developed in Asian ports as a way to converse with European traders. In Hawaii it ...

In one of those conversations, I learned about a language kerfuffle from a few years ago that took me back to the 1990s, and reminded me of how beautiful and complex nonstandard speech can be.

Greeting the audience with a traditional 'Vanakkam' (Namaste) in Tamil language at the beginning of his speech, Mr. Vaishnaw said, "Tamil is a very very sweet language. All I know is three words ...

Greeting the audience with a traditional 'Vanakkam' (Namaste) in Tamil language at the beginning of his speech, Vaishnaw said, "Tamil is a very very sweet language. All I know is three words -- ...

Greeting the audience with a traditional 'Vanakkam' (Namaste) in Tamil language at the beginning of his speech, Mr Vaishnaw said, "Tamil is a very very sweet language. All I know is three words ...

Greeting the audience with a traditional 'Vanakkam' (Namaste) in Tamil language at the beginning of his speech, Vaishnaw said, "Tamil is a very very sweet language. All I know is three words -- ...

However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% consistent match between symbol and sound. This makes learning to read and ...