Kia orana, Noa’ia, Talofa lava, Mauri, Mālō e lelei, Tālofa, Ni sa bula vinaka, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Mālō ni and warm Pacific greetings.
Pacific Language Weeks 2025: Rotuman | Samoa | Kiribati | Vanuatu | Cook Islands Maori | Tonga | Papua New Guinea | Tuvalu | Fiji | Niue | Tokelau | Solomon Islands
"Across the Porirua community, we embrace learning from, and celebrating, the awesome diversity of languages and cultures that thrive here – and the Pacific Language Weeks is a great way to do just that." – Porirua Mayor, Anita Baker
Visit our dedicated YouTube channel to watch all the latest Pacific Language Week videos.
Flag raising: Monday 12 May
A Fijian dependency, consisting of Rotuma Island and nearby islands. Did you know Rotuma is a volcanic island about 465km south of Fiji?
Flag raising: Monday 2 June
Samoa lies south of the equator, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. Did you know the largest island of Samoa is Savaìi and the most populated island is Upolu?
Flag raising: Monday 7 July
Kiribati, officially Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. Did you know there are 33 islands, 20 of which are inhabited?
Flag raising: Monday 28 July
Flag raising: Monday 4 August
The Cook Islands are in the South Pacific Ocean, north-east of New Zealand, between French Polynesia and American Samoa. Did you know the Cook Islands is made up of 15 islands, Rarotonga being the largest?
Flag raising: Monday 18 August
Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of more than 170 South Pacific islands, many uninhabited, most lined in white beaches and coral reefs and covered with tropical rainforest.
Flag raising: Monday 8 September
Papua New Guinea (PNG) was first settled between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago.
Flag raising: Monday 29 September
In the South Pacific is an independent island nation within the British Commonwealth. Its nine islands comprise small, thinly populated atolls and reef islands with palm-fringed beaches and WWII sites.
Flag raising: Monday 6 October
Made up of more than 300 islands, Fiji is famed for rugged landscapes, palm-lined beaches and coral reefs with clear lagoons. Its major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, contain most of the population.
Flag raising: Monday 20 October
Niue is a small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. It’s known for its limestone cliffs and coral-reef dive sites. Migrating whales swim in Niue's waters between July and October.
Flag raising: Monday 27 October
Tokelau is a remote group of atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. Fakaofo has swimming pigs that famously catch fish near its coral reef
Flag raising: Monday 24 November
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia.
