ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of language revitalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The principal focus is on the recent language education initiatives promoting the Indigenous Māori language, te reo Māori. These initiatives, established in the 1980s, aim to redress a long-standing pattern of Māori language loss in the historical context of the British colonization of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The chapter also discusses the more limited language education initiatives aimed at supporting Pasifika languages—the first languages of migrants from the Pacific Islands, who have settled in Aotearoa/New Zealand since the 1950s.
