“We Are Not Privileged Enough to Have That Foundation of Language”: Pasifika Young Adults Share their Deep Concerns about the Decline of the Ancestral/Heritage Languages in Aotearoa New Zealand

Pasifika youth (aged 18-25) are interviewed in focus groups in which they express their distress about the diminishing presence of Indigenous language use and preservation, article notes that there is no comprehensive language policy to preserve these languages and that losing them has profound negative effects for the youth of culturally marginalized communities.
Author/Creator
Lina-Jodi Vaine Samu
Helen Moewaka Barnes

Lanuola Asiasiga
Tim McCreanor
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No
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Citation
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 131-139
Publication Date
2019-06
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Articles -- Scholarly, peer reviewed
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