Students loving wananga set up to protect Ngapuhi dialect

A week-long wananga aiming to protect the unique Ngapuhi mita or dialect will come to an end today. Te Taumata Wananga reo, which began on Sunday, has seen some of Te Tai Tokerau's most reknown te reo Maori speakers come together to teach 140 registered participants Ngapuhi's unique mita, ki waha and whakatauki. A spokesperson for the wananga, Te Amohaere Morehu, told our reporter Te Aniwa Hurihanganui it was a challenge to keep the mita alive because many descendants of Ngapuhi no longer lived in the far North.