I AM the forest - Paumotu - French Polynesia

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The I AM project has been created to reveal the beauty of any language across the globe and the beauty of nature, too. The objective of this initiative is to protect endangered languages for the next generations. The I AM project reminds us that human beings and nature are connected and cannot be separated. The I AM project is the voice of the forests, the oceans, species, the earth and the sky. Any participant can be part of the initiative by recording their voice, reading the words of the elements of the environment. The audio files are stored and published on the official website. The I AM initiative is a cultural project. Protecting languages is a duty of memory.

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The general consensus is that there are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages currently spoken and that between 50% and 90% of them will have become extinct by the year 2100. The 20 most common languages, each with more than 50 million speakers, are spoken by 50% of the world’s population, but most languages are spoken by fewer than 10,000 people. An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages.
The paumotu language :

Tuamotuan, Paʻumotu or Paumotu (Tuamotuan: Reʻo Paʻumotu or Reko Paʻumotu) is a Polynesian language spoken by 4,000 people in the Tuamotu archipelago, with an additional 2,000 speakers in Tahiti.
The Tuamotu people today refer to their land as Tuamotu, while referring to themselves and their language as Paʻumotu. Paʻumotu is one of six Polynesian languages spoken in French Polynesia, the other five languages being Tahitian, Marquesan, Mangarevan, Rapa Iti, and the language of the Austral Islands. The Paʻumotu alphabet is based on the Latin script.
Source : Wikipedia
About the voice of nature
“Ia Ora Na, Kura Ora, Bonjour and Hello,
Born in 1969 to my Paumotu mother, I was taught in the French System, as French Polynesia is one of the French Territories situated in the Pacific Ocean.
My forefathers being natives of the Tuamotu islands of Nukutavake – Pinaki – Vairaatea – Vahitahi – Akiaki, one of the 5 Archipels in French Polynesia, I was brought up mostly by my grandmother who had an immense passion for her culture and her islands.
Her enthusiasm inculcated in me the passion for my culture and my background. This passion converted me to fall in love for my country and its rich culture and pursue this as a hobby as an immense and profound admiration, that I started to learn and search for my past ancestors and their way of living by learning to become a Genealogist from the University of French Polynesia just to follow their paths.
Today, I have made sure that my children grow up into this rich culture and I have given them my passion for our future generations to come, so that they know their origins and keep our culture alive.
I sincerely hope that each one that reads my testimony and my biography is as touched by my culture and my Country for generations to come.”
Teara Teavai


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