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Publication details [#65122]

Ruckstuhl, Katharina. 2018. Public policy and indigenous language rights: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Māori Language Act 2016. Current Issues in Language Planning 19 (3) : 316–329.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aboriginal | language planning | language policy | linguistic human rights | minority language

Language as a subject

Languages, New Zealand, indigenous | Maori | Te Paepae Motuhake | Waitangi

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article explores how policy is made in democratic nations in order to ensure similar language rights. The evaluated case study is Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2016 Māori Language Act and the course by which it passed into legislation.