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tamariki: children; tohunga: priest (in Māori use, an expert or highly skilled person) tūrangawaewae: one's own turf, "a place to stand" tutū: to be rebellious, stirred up, mischievous [18] Used in New Zealand English to mean "fidget" or "fiddle" e.g. "Don't tutū with that!" urupā: burial ground; utu: revenge (in Māori, payment, response ...
te DEF. SG tamariki child. PL te tamariki DEF.SG child.PL "children (in general)" as opposed to ngā DEF. PL tamariki child. PL ngā tamariki DEF.PL child.PL "the (specific group of) children" In other syntactic environments, the definite article may be used to introduce a noun-phrase which is pragmatically indefinite due to the restrictions on the use of he as discussed below. The indefinite ...
It is also known as Māori Kūki ʻĀirani (or Maori Kuki Airani), or as Rarotongan [3] Many Cook Islanders also call it Te reo Ipukarea, which translates as "the language of the ancestral homeland". Official status
Tūhoe people also bear the sobriquet Nga Tamariki o te Kohu ('the children of the mist'). Tūhoe traditional land is at Te Urewera (the former Te Urewera National Park) in the eastern North Island, a steep, heavily forested area which includes Lake Waikaremoana. Tūhoe traditionally relied on the forest for their needs.
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
Māori has undergone several notable sound changes during the last 200 years, most likely under the influence of New Zealand English phonetic system: the sound represented with wh changed from [ɸ] to [f], stop consonants /p/, /t/, /k/ acquired aspiration, and /au/ and /ou/ have mostly merged. [34]
“The writing is visual. So that’s why it’s powerful. Because when you write something, what you say becomes record, it becomes document, and it becomes permanent,” he said.
Rongorongo (/ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ / [1] or / ˈ r ɒ ŋ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ oʊ /; [2] Rapa Nui: roŋoroŋo [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that has the appearance of writing or proto-writing.