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Hōri Mahue Ngata (8 August 1919 – 15 February 1989) was a New Zealand Ngāti Porou farmer, railway worker, workers’ camp supervisor, accountant, lexicographer. His parents were Mākarini Tānara Ngata, a farmer, who was the eldest son of Sir Āpirana Ngata , and Maraea Mereana Baker.
English: This is handwritten Māori Dictionary, by William John Warburton Hamilton, containing lists of words in Māori and their English translations. The document is 41 pages long. The document is 41 pages long.
Learning Media Limited (Māori: Te Pou Taki Kōrero) was a New Zealand state-owned enterprise. [1] The company published most of the Ministry of Education's material. A division of the Ministry until 1993, it continued to publish the New Zealand School Journal and Junior Journal magazines and the Ready to Read readers for the Ministry, as well as provide services for other organisations.
Ngāti Tama is a Māori tribe of New Zealand. Their origins, according to oral tradition, date back to Tama Ariki, the chief navigator on the Tokomaru waka.Their historic region is in north Taranaki, around Poutama, with the Mōhakatino River marking their northern boundary with the Tainui and Ngāti Maniapoto.
As of 2015, 55% of Māori adults reported some knowledge of the language; of these, 64% use Māori at home and around 50,000 people can speak the language "well". [10] As of 2023, around 7% of New Zealand primary and secondary school students are taught fully or partially in Māori, and another 24% learn Māori as an additional language. [11]
His parents were the politician Āpirana Ngata (1874–1950) and the community leader Arihia Ngata (née Tamati, 1879–1929). [2] Ngata was their youngest son and of his 14 siblings, 10 survived to adulthood. [3] The lexicographer Hōri Ngata (1919–1989), his nephew, was his eldest brother Mac's son. [4] Whai Ngata was Hōri Ngata's son. [5]
Ngata and her husband had fifteen children, of whom eleven (six girls and five boys) survived to adulthood. [1] In 1905, Ngata's husband was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as the member for Eastern Maori, and in 1914, Ngata and her husband built a new house for their family at Waiomatatini, near Ruatoria. It was named 'Te Wharehou' (The ...
According to Williams' definitive Dictionary of the Māori Language, tangata means "man" or "human being", whilst tāngata (with the macronated "ā") is the plural, and means "people". Tangata—without the macron—can also mean "people" in reference to a group with a singular identity. [1]