{"id":650,"date":"2017-04-20T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=650"},"modified":"2017-04-20T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:19:08","slug":"the-journeys-of-besieged-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/the-journeys-of-besieged-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journeys of Besieged Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2017\/04\/the-journeys-of-besieged-languages_300.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-653\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2017\/04\/the-journeys-of-besieged-languages_300-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>K\u0101ore te kumara e k\u014drero ana mo t\u014dna ake reka (the kumara never talks of its own sweetness), and <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Professor Poia Rewi<\/strong><\/span> has been humble as usual about his latest publishing success.\u00a0 Arising out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/2014\/11\/20\/te-kura-roa-minority-language-dialect-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Te Kura Roa: Minority Language &amp; Dialect Conference<\/a> held at Otago in 2015, Poia co-edited a new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgescholars.com\/the-journeys-of-besieged-languages\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Journeys of Besieged Languages<\/em><\/a>, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.\u00a0 His co-editors include Dr Delyn Day, a PhD graduate from te Tumu, and Professor R\u0101winia Higgins, a former staff member now at Victoria University of Wellington. <\/span>Unlike the award-winning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huia.co.nz\/huia-bookshop\/bookshop\/the-value-of-maori-language-te-hua-o-te-reo-maori\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Value of the M\u0101ori Language: Te Hua o Te Reo M\u0101ori<\/em><\/a>, (also co-edited by Poia and Rawinia), <span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>The Journeys of Besieged Languages<\/em><\/span> focuses on endangered languages from around the world, from New Zealand, the Pacific, Australia, North America, Europe, Greenland, and Israel.\u00a0 Koia kei a koutou, Poia m\u0101.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u0101ore te kumara e k\u014drero ana mo t\u014dna ake reka (the kumara never talks of its own sweetness), and Professor Poia Rewi has been humble as usual about his latest publishing success.\u00a0 Arising out of the Te Kura Roa: Minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8758],"tags":[47078,45141,47079,35237],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication","tag-endangered-languages","tag-indigenous-languages","tag-linguistics","tag-poia-rewi"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}