Te%20Reo%20Maori%20by%20Justine%20Driver(1) A3-Poster-Taiao-bilingual. A3-Poster-Papa-Rehia-bilingual. A3-Poster-Ko-Au-bilinugal. A3-Poster-Ko-Au-bilinugal. A3-Poster-Kihini-bilingual. Te Reo subject names. Whanaungatanga - Māori Dictionary. Māori Dictionary. Māori language, alphabet and pronunciation. Māori is an Austronesian language spoken in New Zealand, or Aotearoa ('The Land of the Long White Cloud'), and the Cook Islands by about 136,000 people. It was brought to New Zealand by Polynesian people, probably from Taihiti or thereabouts in about 800 AD, or possibly earlier. Māori is most closely related to Tahitian, which is spoken in Tahiti and the Society Islands, and Rarotongan, which is spoken in the southern Cook Islands. Before 1840, Māori was the predominant language of New Zealand. It was extensively used in social, religious, commercial and political interactions among Māori, and between Māori and Pākehā (Whites). The first printed Māori book was Thomas Kendall's 1815 reader called E korao no New Zealand (Talk from New Zealand).
In 1867 the Native Schools Act decreed that English should be the only language used in the education of Māori children, which lead to many Māori children being punished for speaking their own language. Māori alphabet Māori diphthongs Notes Translation. Maori Language Te Reo Dictionary and translators. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori - Māori Language Commission.