Fijian Language Week – Macawa ni Vosa Vakaviti

Fijian Language Week - Macawa Ni Vosa Vakaviti celebrates the culture and language of the more than 14,000 people of Fijian heritage who live in New Zealand.¹ There are over 700 people of Fijian heritage in Christchurch.² 

Ni sa bula vinaka!  Fijian Language Week 2018 was held from Sunday 7 October to Saturday 13 October. The social media hashtags were #VosaVakaviti and #FijianLanguage.

Fiji Language Week

The 2018 theme was:

Noqu Vosa, me'u bula taka
My Language - Learn it, speak it, live it!

Find Fijian resources in the library collection

• Resources in Fijian
• Bilingual Fijian-English dictionaries
• Fijian music
• Resources about Fiji
• Children's resources about Fiji

Fijian language and culture

• Fijian community groups and organisations in CINCH, our community directory
• Read Pasifika salutations on the Pacific Languages Week webpage, Ministry for Pacific Peoples.
• Fiji Language Week resources from the Human Rights Commission
• Fiji Language Week from Te Kete Ipurangi, including links to basic language lessons and video
• Let’s Meke! and Whale tooth tales blog posts from Te Papa Tongarewa

Footnotes

1. Statistics New Zealand, 2013 Census ethnic group profiles: Fijian, accessed 23 September 2015

2. NZ.Stat, Ethnic group (total responses), for the census usually resident population count, 2001, 2006, and 2013 Censuses, accessed 23 September 201