The USP's Diploma in Pacific Vernacular Language: Cook Island Māori Case Study
Channel: ICLDC YT
Date: 2021-05-04

The University of the South Pacific’s Diploma in Pacific Vernacular Language: Cook Island Māori Case Study - Ake Nicholas (Massey). Fiona Willans (USP). Jame Uri-Puati (USP)  and Debi Futter-Puati (USP).

The Cook Islands Māori instantiation of the University of the South Pacific’s “Diploma in Pacific Vernacular Languages” is a degree level course in linguistics, partially delivered in Cook Islands Māori. It promotes the use of Cook Islands Māori in academic and everyday contexts and aims to build community’s linguistic capacity. We will describe the successes and challenges we have seen so far as well as our plans for the expansion of the program.