Saving a dying language over time

The World

The latest boost for the Maori language of New Zealand’s Indigenous people comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, which has announced that it’s including 47 new entries in Maori in its latest update. Host Marco Werman looks at some of the ways a language spoken by only 150,000 people has gotten support.

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