1. Two hundred years ago in 1826 all Māori spoke Te Reo. The population of circa 70,000 Māori or so at that time was of course monolingual, and speaking Te Reo was part of the original definition of being Māori / ‘a New Zealander’ – along with common genealogy, shared
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