Tokelau

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This week, New Zealand's Tokelauan community is celebrating Te Vaiaho o Te Ngangana Tokelau, Tokelau Language Week.

There are nearly four times more tangata tokelau in New Zealand than in Tokelau, based on 2023 census.

The majority of tangata tokelau live in the Greater Wellington area.

A flag-raising ceremony was held in the city of Porirua yesterday to mark Tokelau Language Week.

The chairperson of the Tokelau Aotearoa Advisory Group, Reverend Tui Sopoanga, described Porirua as the capital of Tokelau and Aotearoa.

And that's where we are at the moment.

Our community, like the community of Whātahu, And Haka'oho and Ngunonu, they mostly live here in Portidua.

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To Aotearoa, where the local Tokelauan language is celebrating Te Wai Aho o Te Ngangana Tokelau, Tokelau Language Week.

There are nearly four times more tangata tokelau in New Zealand than in Tokelau, based on New Zealand's 2023 census.

The majority of tangata tokelau live in the greater Wellington region.

A flag-raising ceremony was held in the city of Porirua today to mark Tokelau Language Week.

The chairperson of the Tokelau Aotearoa Advisory Group, Reverend Tui Sopoanga, described Porirua as the capital of Tokelau and Aotearoa.

And that's where we are at the moment.

Our community, like the community of Atahou and Haka'oho and Ngunonu, they mostly live here in Portidoua.

Meanwhile, the US and Israel voted against recommendations to decolonise Pacific territories in a vote held at the UN General Assembly's fourth decolonisation meeting earlier this month.

The Pacific countries on the UN's list of non-self-governing territories were American Samoa, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia, Pitcairn and Tokelau.

The US and Israel voted no to all six votes, while the UK and France abstained from all votes.

Israel has recently been accepted as a dialogue partner in the Pacific Islands Forum.

And of course, that's the sort of thing that takes a lot of work.

It won't fully work overnight, but there's been a lot of work happening in that space.

It's a significant week for the Tokelauan community in Aotearoa as it celebrates Te Vaiahou o Te Ngangana Tokelau, Tokelau Language Week.

A flag-raising ceremony was held in the city of Porirua this morning to mark Tokelau Language Week.

People who are living in more remote communities with less access to health services, for instance, they're likely to have lower rates of immunisation coverage, just reflecting the fact that it's harder for them to access the services.

It's a significant week for the Tokelauan community in Aotearoa New Zealand as it celebrates Te Vai Aho o Te Ngangana Tokelau, Tokelau Language Week.

A flag-raising ceremony was held in the city of Porirua yesterday to mark the week.

The language is classified as severely endangered by UNESCO.

But the chairperson of the Tokelau Aotearoa Advisory Group, Reverend Tui Sopoanga, says they will keep working to keep the language alive.

Even though our language is on the decline, but we're still trying our best because we love our language.

And that's the theme of this year.

The war days, yeah, that was what, 700 years ago, whatever it was.

But even since then, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Tokelau, Niue, it's all right there, you know, and then you come to this side and you got the rest of us.

Yeah, but you got to think too, there would have been a highway back in the days, right? Even before, you know, all these modern borders and shit.

Oh man, we had our own brothels before the Europeans brought them in.