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te reo the Māori language (literally, 'the language') tiki stylised representation of a male human, found in Māori artwork and carving tino rangatiratanga a political term, sometimes translated as "chieftainship," but most accurately rendered as "(complete) sovereign authority", a right promised to Māori in the Treaty of Waitangi tukutuku
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 ...
Te Reo (language), deals with language policy and how the schools can 'best advance the language learning of their children'. Ngā Iwi (people), focuses on 'the social agencies which influence the development of children, in short, all those people with whom they interact as they make sense of their world and find their rightful place within it'.
Te uri Reo Maori (translating in Maori), by Makiʻuti Tongia, Punanga o te reo. 1996. Atiu, e enua e tona iti tangata, te au tata tuatua Ngatupuna Kautai...(et al.), Suva, University of the South Pacific.1993. (Maori translation of Atiu : an island Community) A vocabulary of the Mangaian language by Christian, F. W. 1924. Bernice P. Bishop ...
In 2019, students of Torbay School taught younger tamariki Te Reo and sign language during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week). [65] Glamorgan School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1-6) school with a roll of 572 students as of November 2024.
[13] The second volume of the report contains a glossary of te reo Māori terms, including: tikanga: traditional rules for conducting life, custom, method, rule, law; tikanga Māori: Māori traditional rules, culture; An example of applied tikanga is an approach by Māori weavers in the gathering of traditional materials such as harakeke.
In tandem with calls for sovereignty and for the righting of social injustices from the 1970s onwards, New Zealand schools now teach Māori culture and language as an option, and pre-school kohanga reo ("language-nests") have started, which teach tamariki (young children) exclusively in Māori.
In some legends Tama-nui-te-rā is the husband of Ārohirohi, goddess of mirages. In other legends, Tama-nui-te-rā had two wives, the Summer maid, Hineraumati, and the Winter maid, Hinetakurua. During the year he would divide his time between his two wives, this marked the changing of the seasons and the changing position of the sun in the sky.