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“It’s a document lost in translation over 150 years ago, now the Treaty of Waitangi has a new lease on life, translated into 30 different languages.
Stefan Grand-Meyer, coordinator of the Treaty Times Thirty project, says, “This will allow the Treaty to be more accessible to newly arrived migrants or the international community so they better understand the Treaty’s context in New Zealand.”
The project was started by the NZ Society of Translators and Interpreters to celebrate its 30th anniversary. It took over a year and more than 100 volunteer translators to complete.
Interpreter Alta Rall says, “Each language had to be translated by three different speakers and then afterwards the three translators worked together to combine and produce the best one.”
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