Disney's 'Moana' Is Giving A Lift To New Zealand's Indigenous Language

"About 125,000 of New Zealand's 4.7 million people speak the Maori language ... There are concerns that numbers are declining, putting it at risk of dying out. But with one in three Maori people in New Zealand younger than 15, experts said the chance for youth to see a wildly popular movie in their own words" - Disney planned from the beginning to translate Moana, based on traditional Polynesian stories, into Maori - "could turn the language's fortunes around after more official efforts faltered