Kesmas lelei from all of us at #wearethepacificocean 🌴🌊🏝 May your #Christmas be shared with loved ones! #Rotuma #RotumanLanguage #Rotuman #BeachChristmas #PacificFamily

Matin Fo’ou ne Rotuma: A proposed new Flag for Rotuma #rotuma #rotumanlanguage (NB: not associated with any secessionist / independence movements or personality cults, just an experiment in vexillology and design)

Best wishes for maur lelei (health and wellbeing) as we celebrate Rotuman Language Week 2021in Aotearoa NZ and 140th anniversary of Rotuma Day on 13 May 2021 🏝️ #RotumanLanguageWeek #Rotuma #Rotuman #Rotumans #Rotumanculture #Rotumanstyle #Rotumaisland #Rotumanlanguage #Tefui

Never too young to learn a #language or celebrate #culture! What a beautiful performance by the New Zealand Rotuman Fellowship in Wellington at @Te_Papa for #RotumaDay celebrations 🇫🇯🎶🏝️ #rotumanculture #rotumaisland #Rotuma #RotumanLanguageWeek #rotumans #rotumanlanguage

Happy Rotuma Day everyone! Loving all the #rotumanlanguageweek content through! Some of the #RotumanLanguage bloopers are golden, lots of “Noa’ia ‘e muri” going on 😂 who’s got similar puns (buns) @fkrfn7 @ralifo_r @wilfredfimone @threegoodlanefj

Rotumans in NZ 🇳🇿 Celebrate 🎉 its #RotumanLanguage. https://t.co/zOFfq9iOmZ

Efforts to save the endangered language of #Rotuma following the successful debut of #RotumanLanguage Week, from May 6 to May 13, continue on in June as @RakoPasefika make their first ever trip to Aotearoa from the 25th to 29th https://t.co/kjryuyEh3k

#Rotuma #RotumanLanguage

Noa'ia e Mauri #RotumanLanguage #InternationalMotherLanguageDay

Poems from the Edge of #Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in #EndangeredLanguages, ed. by Chris McCabe. https://t.co/AbZWnYRgfd #WITMonth #TranslatedLit #Fiji #SolomonIslands #RotumanLanguage #WIT 🧵

#rotumanlanguage #rotumalanguageweek Cousins/sibling male ref to male - sasiag Cousins/sibling female ref to female - sasiag Cousins/siblings male ref to female - saghän/saghani(sing)/saghaina(pl) Cousins/siblings female ref to male - sagavän/sagaväne(sing)/sagaväno(pl)

Another classic #RotumanLanguage blooper I recall is a story of an unnamed healthcare professional who early in their career, whenever they called a Rotuman patient into their consulting room, would greet an individual person with a confident “ ‘Aus Noa’ia! “

And then you can’t go wrong with the pan-Pacific Sunday best of Bula shirt, sulu and thongs or Bata with a big smile and a warm “Noa’ia” - let me know how they go! #rotumanlanguageweek #rotumanculture #pasifika #rotumanlanguage #rotumanlanguageweek2021 (3/3) l

Lelei pạu. Maybe this is because the pronunciation in Australian English is different but I’d say: Ä - like CAKE: a’häe, säe Å - like CAT: sås ta, terån Think of the different pronunciation between the 2 A’s in the word “a’häe’åk” #rotumanlanguageweek #rotumanlanguage #rotuma

@biscatty679 Also, I have no issue with his explanation of A and ạ, just with the exclusion of å and the distinction between that å and ä. Let’s try and avoid the annual debate on the spelling of fạiåkse’ea kahaha #rotumanlanguage #rotumanlanguageweek

@fkrfn7 Hanis ma röt’åk. I’m actually making a video on “What’s with the Dots?” for my insta this week. Didn’t want to start a debate, just really loving the thread and all the #Rotuma chat going on here atm. Thanks for all your posts sasiạg! #rotumanlanguage

@biscatty679 @wilfredfimone @threegoodlanefj I’m also about to relaunch my Rotuman language Instagram @rotumanlanguage inspired by all the #RotumanLanguageWeek content so you’re all welcome to follow and give feedback / clap back / guest contribute haha

@threegoodlanefj One of my favourite Rotuman words: kiḁli’i which means to crave or hanker for a particular food. Mainly because I am always kiḁli’i for tähroro but can never get it here in Australia #RotumanLanguageWeek #RotumanLanguage #Rotuma

@biscatty679 @wilfredfimone @threegoodlanefj As you’re clever and technically minded I recommend Rotuman by Marit Vamarasi which is a great grammar resource albeit hampered by being a hardcore linguistics text https://t.co/yjVuTotwMT #RotumanLanguage #rotumanlanguageweek

#LOCALNEWS President Major-General (Ret’d) Jioji Konusi Konrote launched the Organic Rotuma Accreditation and the Publication of the Rotuman Book “Rak La Faeag Rotuḁm” at the Holiday In yesterday. #TimesNews #FijiNews #RotumanLanguage