The Māori Language Commission ( Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori ) advocates that macrons be used to designate long vowels.

::* an ongoing lack of educational resources needed to teach the full curriculum in te reo Māori.

This reflects our concern that te reo revival will not work if responsibility for setting the direction is not shared with Māori.

For instance, targets for the training of te reo teachers must be met, education curricula involving te reo must be approved, and public bodies in districts with a sufficient number and / or proportion of te reo speakers and schools with a certain proportion of Māori students must submit Māori language plans for approval.

Another Māori name for a comet is Ūpokoroa (" long-headed one "); a poetic name for fire is te tama a Ūpokoroa, ( the son of Upokoroa ) ( Best 1982: 244-245 ).

The Waitangi Tribunal, in Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry ( Wai 1040 ) is in the process of considering the Māori and Crown understandings of He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga / The Declaration of Independence 1835 and Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi 1840.

In the Māori text, signatories are assured that their tino rangatiratanga will remain undisturbed over their lands, kainga and other taonga ( te tino rangatiratanga o ratou wenua o ratou kainga me o ratou taonga katoa, literally the absolute chieftainship of your lands, your homes, and all your treasures / taonga ).

A government-sponsored initiative, te wiki o te reo Māori has been celebrated since 1975 and is intended to encourage New Zealanders to learn or at least support the Māori.

Emerging in the late 1970s at the direction of kaumātua, kōhanga reo was an immediate and urgent response to the decline of te reo Māori ( Māori language ) and tikanga Māori ( Māori culture, cultural habits and practices ).

Kōhanga reo ( Māori: literally " language nest ") is a whānau ( family ) development and language revitalisation initiative grounded in Māori cultural principles and ideals.

The kōhanga reo movement operates from the Māori philosophical world view and is principally guided by kaumātua ( respected elders ) and their lifelong wisdom.

Conducted entirely in the medium of Māori language, kōhanga reo is an environment where mokopuna aged 0 – 6 years old ( 6 being the age at which all New Zealand children are statutorily required to be enrolled at a registered school ), kaumātua and whānau spend time together talking, playing, praying and learning.

In Maori ( Te Reo Māori ), ⟨ g ⟩ is used in the combination ⟨ ng ⟩ which represents the velar nasal and is pronounced like the ⟨ ng ⟩ in singer.

Some say he got his name from this, " Kooti " pronounced " Courty ", others that it was a Māori version of the last name " Coates ".

The legendary homeland of the Māori of New Zealand, where w is used instead of v, is Hawaiki ; in the Cook Islands, where h is replaced with the glottal stop, it is ‘ Avaiki ; in the Hawaiian Islands, where w is used and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island of the group is named Hawai ‘ i ; in Samoa, where s has not been substituted by h, v is used instead of w, and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island is called Savai ' i. In the Society Islands, k and ng are replaced by the glottal stop, so the name for the ancestral homeland is pronounced Havai ‘ i.

The Māori word Kerikeri was spelled and pronounced as Keddi Keddi or even Kiddee Kiddee, but the town's name is today generally pronounced Kerry Kerry but with a rolled r by Māori.

Until recently it was generally written as " Wanganui " and pronounced with a w by non-speakers of Māori and a wh ( often ) by those Māori speakers from other areas who knew its derivation.

Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, ONZ, DBE, AC ( pronounced ; born 6 March 1944, Gisborne, New Zealand ) is a New Zealand / Māori soprano who has had a highly successful international opera career since 1968.

Similar Māori gatherings will often feature a hangi ( pronounced hung-ee ), a pit in which meats or fish are cooked with vegetables.

Shibboleth: People aware of other place names of Māori origin might expect " Whangamata " to be pronounced in a similar way to such names as Waitemata and Matamata, where more stress is placed on the penultimate syllable than the final one, leaving the last ' a ' as a schwa.

In New Zealand, where abalone is called pāua ( from the Māori language ), this can be a particularly awkward problem where the right to harvest pāua can be granted legally under Māori customary rights.

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

A particular variant ( or genotype ), dubbed " warrior gene " in the popular press, was over-represented in Māori.

Today, one can find Berbers of Tamazgha ( North Africa ), Māori of New Zealand, Hausa people of Northern Nigeria, Kurdish people in East-Turkey and Atayal of Taiwan with facial tattoos.

Māori cultivated food plants which they had brought with them from Polynesia, including sweet potatoes ( called kūmara ), taro, gourds and yams.

Until World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), most Māori people spoke Māori as their first language.

* M. Orbell, The Concise Encyclopedia of Māori Myth and Legend ( Canterbury University Press: Christchurch ), 1998.

* Ao ( mythology ), a deity in Māori mythology

Around the same time a group of Māori migrated to Rekohu ( the Chatham Islands ), where, by adapting to the local climate and the availability of resources, they developed a culture known as Moriori — related to but distinct from Māori culture in mainland New Zealand.

The area now covered by the city was originally the site of a handful of Māori villages ( kāinga ), including Pukete, Miropiko and Kirikiriroa (" long stretch of gravel '), from which the city takes its Māori name.

The Kakapo ( Māori: kākāpō, meaning night parrot ), Strigops habroptila ( Gray, 1845 ), also called owl parrot, is a species of large, flightless nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand.

* Kahukura ( mythology ), a figure from Māori mythology

Other food crops cultivated by Māori in traditional times include taro, yams ( uwhi ), cordyline ( tī ), and gourds ( hue ).

* M. Orbell, The Concise Encyclopedia of Māori Myth and Legend ( Canterbury University Press: Christchurch ), 1998.

* M. Orbell, The Concise Encyclopedia of Māori Myth and Legend ( Canterbury University Press: Christchurch ), 1998.

Although it is commonly claimed that vowel realisations ( pronunciations ) in Māori show little variation, linguistic research has shown this not to be the case.

In New Zealand English, the Māori term kūmara is commonly used.

Aotearoa (, commonly mispronounced by English speakers ) is the most widely known and accepted Māori name for New Zealand.

Sir George commonly used such reports from Protestant missionaries to battle his two enemies, anti-Government Māori and the Parliament, and in turn he supplied the Protestant missionaries with information on the movements of Catholic missionaries.

During the early 20th century it was commonly believed that the Moriori were pre-Māori settlers of New Zealand, linguistically and genetically different from the Māori, and possibly Melanesian.

The Māori transliteration of Palmerston is " Pamutana ", but this is largely unused, with Papa-i-oea ( commonly contracted to Papaioea ) being the preferred option, e. g. Te Kura Kōhine o Papaioea ( Palmerston North Girls ' High School ) and Te Hohipera o Papaioea ( Palmerston North Hospital ).

Samoan is the third most commonly spoken language in New Zealand after English and Māori.

The Department of Conservation ( In Māori, Te Papa Atawhai ), commonly known by its acronym, " DOC ", is the state sector organisation which deals with the conservation of New Zealand ’ s natural and historic heritage.

The birds ' Māori name, which is the most commonly used, means " small parrot ".

* Māori legends of a man eating bird, known variously as the Pouakai, Hokioi, or Hakawai are commonly believed to recount Haast's Eagle, a giant predatory bird that went extinct with the Moa only 600 years ago.

The Māori call the island Takapourewa but Stephens Island is the commonly used name.

Most Chert, a fine grained, easily worked stone, familiar to Māori from its extensive use in Polynesia, was the most commonly used stone, with thousands of pieces being found in some Northland digs.

Known to the Māori as Pūtangitangi, but now commonly referred to as the " Paradise duck ", it is a prized game bird.

This species is commonly called crayfish or crays in New Zealand and in Māori.

Coprosma robusta, or more commonly known as karamu in Māori, is the name given to the shrub / tree that is one of 45 Coprosma species found in New Zealand.

Knightia excelsa, commonly called rewarewa ( from Māori ), is an evergreen tree endemic to the low elevation and valley forests of New Zealand's North Island and Marlborough Sounds ( 41 ° S ) and the type species for the genus Knightia.

The term Kapa haka ( kapa meaning ' rank ' or ' row ' and haka refers to a Māori dance ) is commonly known in Aotearoa as ' Maori Performing Arts ' or the ' cultural dance ' of Maori people.

Another important competition takes place yearly at the ASB Bank Auckland Secondary Schools Māori and Pacific Islands Cultural Festival, commonly known as Polyfest, where the level of performance is also very high.

Today, their main use is ornamental and they are commonly worn around the neck not only by Māori, but also by other New Zealanders who identify with the hei matau as a symbol of New Zealand.

The 28th ( Māori ) Battalion, more commonly known as the Māori Battalion, was an infantry battalion of the New Zealand Army that served during the Second World War.