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The English word Maori is a borrowing from the Māori language, where it is spelled Māori.In New Zealand, the Māori language is often referred to as te reo [tɛ ˈɾɛ.ɔ] ("the language"), short for te reo Māori ("the Māori language").
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (English: Māori Language Week) is a government-sponsored initiative intended to encourage New Zealanders to promote the use of the Māori language which is an official language of the country. Māori Language Week is part of a broader movement to revive the Māori language.
The Māori language revival is a movement to promote, reinforce and strengthen the use of the Māori language (te reo Māori).Primarily in New Zealand, but also in places with large numbers of expatriate New Zealanders (such as London and Melbourne), the movement aims to increase the use of Māori in the home, in education, government, and business.
The phonology of Māori is typical for a Polynesian language, with its phonetic inventory being one of the smallest in the world with considerable variation in realisation. [1] The Māori language retains the Proto-Polynesian syllable structure: ( C ) V (V(V)), with no closed syllables .
The Māori Language Act 1987 was a piece of legislation passed by the Parliament of New Zealand [2] that gave official language status to the Māori language (te reo Māori), and gave speakers a right to use it in legal settings such as courts.
The Māori language of the indigenous Māori people has been an official language by statute since 1987, with rights and obligations to use it defined by the Maori Language Act 1987. [24] It can, for example, be used in legal settings, such as in court, but proceedings are recorded in only in English, unless private arrangements are made and ...
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Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) [1] is the Māori-language name for New Zealand.The name was originally used by Māori in reference only to the North Island, with the whole country being referred to as Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu – where Te Ika-a-Māui means North Island, and Te Waipounamu means South Island. [2]