Currently in New Zealand there are about 48 thousand people fluent in Te Reo and the figure is falling steadily. Rawinia Higgins is at the forefront of efforts to preserve Te Reo as a living language. She's just taken up the role of deputy vice chancellor for Maori studies at Victoria University and had previously chaired a review of the government's Maori language bill.
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