Year: 2023
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The indigenous language of the small Kāi Tahu kāik (village) of Ōtākou was a dialect of the Māori language (te reo), the mother tongue of the community when villagers encountered Europeans in the late eighteenth century. However, within 150 years of contact with Europeans, the language was dead. The majority of Ōtākou’s native speakers had died out by the early twentieth century, with the kāik’s last native speaker passing away in 1969.
Author: Potiki, Megan
Institution: University of Otago
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7199851986