Pasifika

English

Etymology

From English Pacific, changed to use Samoan orthography.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pəˈsɪfɪkə/

Noun

Pasifika (plural Pasifikas or Pasifika)

  1. (New Zealand) Pacific Islander.
    • 2018, The Guardian, "Post-colonial talk back: seeing London in the South Seas", Selina Tusitala Marsh, 24 February 2018 (Selina Tusitala Marsh is a poet-scholar and New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017–2019)
      My political stance as a Pasifika poet has always been one of inclusion – I'm a bridge not a wall.

References

  1. ^ “Pasifika - Identity or illusion?”, in NZ Herald‎[1], 3 August 2007
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