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Since about 2015, macrons have rapidly become standard usage for Māori loanwords in New Zealand English in media, law, government, and education. [2] Recently some anglicised words have been replaced with spellings that better reflect the original Māori word (Whanganui for Wanganui, Remutaka for Rimutaka). [3] [4]
The use of Māori words in New Zealand English has increased since the 1990s, [2] [3] and English-language publications increasingly use macrons to indicate long vowels. [4] Māori words are usually not italicised in New Zealand English, and most publications follow the Māori-language convention of the same word for singular and plural (e.g ...
The dominant influence of Māori on New Zealand English is lexical. A 1999 estimate based on the Wellington corpora of written and spoken New Zealand English put the proportion of words of Māori origin at approximately 0.6%, mostly place and personal names. [92] Some Māori words occur in New Zealand English, such as kia ora (hello). [93]
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List of English words of Polynesian origin; Further reading. Edward Tregear (1891). The Maori-Polynesian ... The Maori-Polynesian comparative dictionary.
Kia ora (Māori pronunciation: [k i ˈ a ɔ ɾ a], approximated in English as / ˌ k iː ə ˈ ɔːr ə / KEE-ə-OR-ə [1] or / ˈ k j ɔːr ə / KYOR-ə) is a Māori-language greeting which has entered New Zealand English. It translates literally as "have life" or "be healthy", [2] wishing the essence of life upon someone, from one speaker to ...
There is a basic flaw in this article. The title is: "List of English words of Māori origin" and the opening sentence says: "The following Māori words exist as loanwords in English" Well, what is it, a list of English words or Maori words? The key word to focus on is 'assimilation'. Roger 8 Roger 19:19, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
English is the predominant language and a de facto official language of New Zealand. Almost the entire population speak it either as native speakers or proficiently as a second language. [1] The New Zealand English dialect is most similar to Australian English in pronunciation, with some key differences.