The Sociolinguistic Situation in the Cook Islands

Sallabank, Julia

Abstract

This report stems from a brief visit to Rarotonga in April 2013 facilitated by Roderick Dixon, Director of the University of the South Pacific in the Cook Islands. It addresses the following topics:
1. Language maintenance / shift
2. Languages and dialects
3. Expatriate / diaspora members of the speech community
4. Language policy and language in education
5. Dictionaries of Cook Islands Maori
6. Records of Cook Islands Maori: (a) oral, and (b) written
7. Proposals.

Citation

Sallabank, J. The Sociolinguistic Situation in the Cook Islands

• Report Type: Project Report
• Deposit Date: Nov 5, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 5, 2015
• Publisher URL: http://maori.org.ck/blog/2014/08/the-sociolinguistic-situation-in-the-cook-islands/