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		Definition of language nest in English: language nestnoun NZ A preschool where lessons are conducted in Maori.  the language is strengthened through language nests and homework centres Also called kohanga reo  Example sentencesExamples -  Can they imagine the difference that $55 million might have made to local kohanga reo - the difference that it might have made to what local language nests do in the community?
 -  Preschool Maori children attend Kohanga-reo (language nests) to learn Maori.
 -  These are the groups who should now act as poster children for minority languages: the Maori boys and girls in pre-school "language nests", the artists and producers who mutate the mass media in Welsh, the Catalan activists who have peacefully forced Spain to rethink its identity.
 -  Language nests or kohanga reo have been established for pre-school children, and many Maori people aim at bilingualism.
 -  He emailed seven Tuhoe language nests this month saying that another tribal organisation, Te Uru Taumata, had asked for more support for Iti.
 -  Can the Prime Minister confirm that culturally appropriate programmes such as Pacific Island language nests are essential to targeting on the basis of need?
 -  Those who went before to try and secure land for the tangata whenua, to establish kohanga reo (language nests) and kura kaupapa (schools) where te reo is the first language.
 -  Is this like children in the north of Scotland being taught Gaelic as their mother tongue, or New Zealand kids (in some 'language nest' schools) being taught exclusively in Maori?
 -  Language nest programs (schools that involve total immersion in an ancestral language) have produced thousands of new speakers of Maori.
 -  We have our language nests, kohanga reo, where a minority send their children to learn Te Reo but New Zealanders in general still see Te Reo Maori as an option not a necessity.
 
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