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Pasifika language resources

Language Resources

Leo Moana o Aotearoa – the Pacific Languages of Aotearoa Survey
O tatou o aga'i i fea?: 'Oku tau o ki fe?: Where are we heading?: Pacific languages in Aotearoa/New Zealand by John McCaffery and Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery
To each a language: Addressing the challenges of language and cultural loss for Samoans by Meaola Amituanai-Toloa

Children

Historical

New Zealand Electronic Text Collection Access a collection of historic and contemporary Māori and Pacific Islands texts.
Fagogo. Fables from Samoa

Poetry

New Zealand electronic poetry centre

Library and Learning Services Resources

Gagana Sāmoa : A Samoan language coursebook by Galumalemana Afeleti L. Hunkin
Dewey Number: 499.462 HUN
Publication Date: 2009
Lāuga : Understanding Samoan oratory by Sadat Muaiava
Dewey Number: 808.51 MUA
Publication Date: 2022

For more resources go to Samoan Language Subject Guide

Vocabulary of the Tonga Language by S. Rabone
Dewey Number: 499.48 VOC
Publication Date: 2018
'Aati 'o e lea Tonga heliaki : Tufunga mo e faiva lea heliaki by ʻOkusitino. Māhina & Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai
Dewey Number: 398.99948 MAH
Publication Date: 2007

For more resources go to the Tongan language Subject Guide.

Akamaʻara i te Kūki ʻAirani mātiri: Remember Cook Island proverbs by Renee Hollis
Dewey Number: 398.99944 HOL
Publication Date: 2007
Cook Islands Maori dictionary by Jasper Buse with Raututi Taringa
Dewey Number: 499.44 BUS
Publication Date: 1995

Isaia says ; Analia asks by Dahlia Malaeulu
Dewey Number: 499.462 MAL
Publication Date: 2021
Tongan for Kids by Jahri Jah Jah
Dewey Number: 499.48 JAH
Publication Date: 2010
My Cook Islands Māori alphabet : With numbers and colours by Bradley Walker, Naomi Strickland, Tukara Matthews
Dewey Number: 499.44 WAL
Publication Date: 2010

Find more Pacific languge childrens books in the Teaching and Learning Collection at Ōtara Campus Library.