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2. Māori language - Wikipedia

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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").

3. List of English words of Māori origin - Wikipedia

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   tapu: sacred, taboo; to be avoided because of this; (a cognate of the Tongan tabu, origin of the English borrowing of taboo) tangi: to mourn; or, a funeral at a marae; taniwha: mythical water monster; te reo: the Māori language (literally, 'the language') waka: canoe, boat [17] (modern Māori usage includes automobiles)

4. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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   Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

5. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Wikipedia

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   To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Whittaker's released a special edition version of their milk chocolate, rebranded as Miraka Kirīmi (creamy milk) in te reo. [30] The rebranding caused widescale controversy due to racist backlash criticising the rebranding, and sparked a response to support the naming of the chocolate bar in te reo. [31 ...

6. Māori phonology - Wikipedia

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   Starting from the 19th century both /t/ and /k/ are increasingly aspirated, though still never as aspirated as the voiceless stops in English. The article te 'the' can be pronounced as in unstressed environments, sounding identical to its English translation. [8] Sometimes /k/ is voiced to [ɣ] in unstressed syllables. [8]

7. List of New Zealand place name etymologies - Wikipedia

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   The English component is in honour of Captain James Cook; Aotearoa – the common Te Reo Māori name for New Zealand since the early 20th century; previously a Te Reo Māori name for the North Island. Usually glossed as Land of the Long White Cloud. From ao: cloud, tea: white, roa: long; Aramoana – Te Reo Māori for "pathway to (or beside ...

8. Google Māori - Wikipedia

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   As project managers they initiated the support of the Māori Language Commission and dozens of volunteers, leading ultimately to all translations being completed within a year—just in time for te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) 2008. [2] In total more than 1,600 phrases, totaling more than 8,500 words, had been translated.

9. Māori language influence on New Zealand English - Wikipedia

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   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 ...