This year’s Maori Language Week in New Zealand will be July 23-29, 2007. The theme is “Tāpoi – Tourism.” It celebrates the language of the aboriginal people of New Zealand, a language with official legal status.
For those of us far from New Zealand, have a look at the 2002 movie Whale Rider. It has Maori actors and local Maori extras. It’s mostly in English, but there are some Maori (te reo Māori) words (taboo is tapu) and some subtitled exchanges.
There’s also a Wikipedia version in the Maori language.
See also last year’s post:
Maori Language Week