Maori Language Commission - Definition and Overview

New Zealand's Maori Language Commission (Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori) is a State organisation set up under the Māori Language Act 1987 with the following functions:

• "(a) To initiate, develop, co-ordinate, review, advise upon, and assist in the implementation of policies, procedures, measures, and practices designed to give effect to the declaration in section 3 of this Act of the Māori language as an official language of New Zealand:
• "(b) Generally to promote the Māori language, and, in particular, its use as a living language and as an ordinary means of communication:
• "(c) The functions conferred on the Commission by sections 15 to 20 of this Act in relation to certificates of competency in the Māori language:
• "(d) To consider and report to the Minister upon any matter relating to the Māori language that the Minister may from time to time refer to the Commission for its advice:
• "(e) Such other functions as may be conferred upon the Commission by any other enactment."

See also

• List of language regulators
• Language policy
• Language revival

External links

• Commission website (Māori and English versions) (http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/)
• Māori Wikipedia (currently a mixture of English and Māori ) (http://mi.wikipedia.org/)
• Te Puni Kōkiri - Government's principal adviser on Māori issues (http://www.tpk.govt.nz/)

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