Pasifika
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Pacific, changed to use Samoan orthography.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pasifika (plural Pasifikas or Pasifika)
- (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.
- 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)