Kia ora,

Currently on my Māori journey and looking for people who want to learn or practice their Māori speaking when playing as a team?

Or know anyone who would be keen let me know

Kia ora, I'm not finding this in Te Aka so I thought I'd ask here. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

A friend is working on a creative proposal about stories that aren't specifically Māori but might involve Māori people and are set on or near the rohe of specific mana whenua. In his proposal he talks about open consultation, and says "the last thing we want is to become tapu" which I'm pretty sure is the wrong word. (And which probably indicates that he really does need to partner with mana whenua.)

My first impulse is to advise him not to use reo that he doesn't fully understand, but I kinda get why he'd want to use reo in an effort to show that he's eager to learn from te ao Māori.

If he did want to use reo there, what kupu would be correct to use? It's the antonym of tika. Something that means culturally rude or inappropriate, or dismissive of the mana of the local people.

Any suggestions? Cheers

Kia ora.

I'm working on my A & O categories and finding conflicting spellings. Assuming I always use macrons where they apply to correct spelling and pronounciation, is it Tāku and Tōku not Taku and Toku. Is it always Aku and Oku not Āku and Ōku?

I had thought the macron applied on the O and not the A category whether singular or plural ( ie: taku and tōku, aku and ōku, tau and tōu) but I see it being used sometimes on ā and sometimes not on o! All my resources show different examples and none clarify.

A Māori word describing the responsibility to care for the natural world has been named the world’s most beautiful word by language-learning platform Babbel.

The kupu, kaitiakitanga topped a list of 223 words from 75 languages after Babbel analysed discussions across online communities including Reddit and TikTok before an international panel of linguists, writers and cultural experts selected a winner.

The word means guardianship and protection. It was a way of protecting and caring for the environment for present and future generations based on the Māori world view.

Babbel said kaitiakitanga stood out for its distinctive sound, layered meaning and cultural significance.

The lyrics on YT were made by a non-native and they're a bit rubbish. I would need the whole song with Maori lyrics, so I understand if most of you will pass, but if someone wants to help, please DM me :)

Here's my attempt of the first part of the song but the lyrics itself were given wrong so it's all a mess:

Mumura ana te hukapapa i te pōuriuri

The snow glows in the darkness

He pā tū taratahi, ā, ko ahau te ariki

A solitary fortress stands, and I am the leader

Noho ai te hau, āki, ka pūkeri ai

The wind rages, strikes, and blows fiercely

Kātahi nei ka puta noa mai

Only now has it freely emerged

Noho motu ki tawhiti

Dwell apart in the distance

Whiria tō ake huanui

Choose your own path

E whio ana te hau

The wind is whistling

Waerea, waerea!

Clear the way, clear the way!

E kore e puritia anō

It will not be held back again

Waerea, waerea!

Clear the way, clear the way!

Pūmanawa tuku iho!

Inherited talent!

Hei aha ka kōrero!

Never mind the talk!

Rere tōtōā!

Fly boldly!

Aoraki matatū ake nei!

Standing firm like Aoraki here!

Greetings altogether,

I am completely new to this subreddit and just recently came across a live performance

Takapuna Grammar School, Leonessa | Te Iwi E* – Wehi Whanau

i humbly request and ask, if anyone fluent of the Māori language would be so patient and kind to provide the text, lyrics of what the choir is singing in this particular performance. I tried to transcribe them but with near none knowledge of the language its quite a challange.

yes, i can google the song per se of course, but listening and comparing to what google displayed I had some doubts if that was accurate or rather a more general version.

thank you for your consideration and best regards and greetings from Germany (basically just around the corner)

Here my own tries and attempts by listening and somewhat googles hints to it to sort the words slightly:

"Te Iwi E
E karanga e te iwi e
Kua eke mai nei
Kua eke mai nei ki runga te marae e

Mauria mai ra
Mauria mai ra e nga mate o te motu e

Me nga tini roimata
Me nga tini roimata e maringi whanui e

Titiro e nga iwi
Titiro e nga iwi e nga mahi o te motu E hora atu nei e
Rū ana te whenua Rū ana te whenua, whatiwhati te moana e
Aue te aroha
Aue te aroha te mamae i ahau e."

But i sliiíightly struggle at the part of 01:02 to 01:16 especially. is it

"Me... ā rātou tātā (...)"?

Tēnā koutou!

I am making a little mobile video game, and would like to have a version that's in te reo. I'm not super sure of some of the translations, and would love some guidance. I've had a go, but would really appreciate any corrections or suggestions.

ngā mihi --

kia ora koutou,

Te Aka and Wiktionary both say that Māori kipa is a loan word from spur, but I've been trying to figure out the connection for about 20 minutes now and I can't work it out. It's definitely not a direct transliteration of spur, which would surely be some variation of *puru. I just can't work out how you'd arrive phonetically at something so Māori-sounding

Anyone have any guesses?

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Kōrerotia te reo Māori!

Kei te pēhea koe? I pēhea tō wiki?

is it just an exception ? or is it a fusion between the words āta and ahua or something ?

I'm surprised no one (afaict) made this already? All the useless keys just make it so annoying to tap-type in Māori

guide to set this up here:

​Thumb-Key-Maori/README.md at main · gilgulgamesh/Thumb-Key-Maori

Both the keyboard and the installation are a little rough around the edges, but with Android shutting down in < 3 months, I had to share. (It is nice to use at least) But Make sure to download the app before the android lockdown, that's the most important part.

edit to clarify:

This is not my app, but it's an app that lets me customise. So it's not too hard to mess with it yourself!

as a new-to-coding tauiwi who hasn't even been learning reo recently, I'm sure there's a lottttt I've missed. But please test it out first, as some decisions that look odd are intentional

If people actually find this useful I might make some changes, but really I'm sharing more because I felt bad havingthis expire on my harddrive as android moves to hurt (the process of downloading) this particular app

Kia ora! I am a polish teen and would like to learn the language but I can barely find resources. I've tried out the app "Drops" but it's just vocabulary. As you can expect, it's impossible to find any resources locally so I can only rely on the internet... I know little about the culture too so if you know where I could find anything to teach myself, I'd be grateful if you could share it :)

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Kōrerotia te reo Māori!

Kei te pēhea koe? I pēhea tō wiki?

Sorry if this has been asked before. Anyone got the reo lyrics to the waita in the middle of the classic "what the time Mr wolf" by Southside of Bombay?

Trying to learn adap for a karaoke night coming up. 😆

For chatting with pēpi, What would the Māori version of ta be?

Okay, so my cat which I have had for 10 years is, at the moment, dying. I have decided after much kōrero with my family that the best choice is to put him down. We will take him to the vet next week. So I have penned a waiata tangi that I will say when he is buried. I'm posting it here so there is feedback that my grammar and words are correct.

Māori:

Auē, e taku ngeru aroha e…

He nauhea hūmārie e whā waewae

Kua whiti ngā karu rite tonu ki te ruru e

Ka karanga au i a koe

Kua kore koe e mamae anō e…

Ka noho mārie koe

Heoi e tangi ana au mō tō reo, kua ngaro e…

I homai e koe te mahana ki au

I tono e koe mō te kai me te awhi e…

I noho, i aroha ki au me tōku whānau

Ā, kei konei koe e takoto nei e…

E tangi ana au mō ō taringa tapatoru e… 

Haere atu, e ngeru aroha e…

Ko tō tinana hei whāngai i Papatūānuku

Ā, ka hīkoi atu tō wairua ki te Rerenga e…

Ka noho tonu, ka mate au

Ina haere atu tōku wairua i te ara anō

Ka kitea koe ki te pōhutukawa 

Ka tūtaki tātou e…

Ā, ka whakawhiti atu tātou ki te Arahanga Āniwaniwa

Ki hea e whai ake 

Engari ināianei, haere rā e…

Pākehā:

Oh woe, dear cat of mine

A rascal on four feet

With eyes like a morepork

I call out to you now

That you shall not suffer anymore

That you shall know peace

And yet I weep over your voice now lost

You provided me with warmth

You asked only for food and closeness

You lived and loved, with your family 

And now you lie here

While I weep over your triangular ears 

Go now, dear cat

Your body nourishes the Earth Mother

And your spirit trods on to Cape Rēinga

I will carry on living, and I will die

And when my spirit goes the same way

I will find you at the lone pohutukawa

Then we will be together 

And we will cross the rainbow bridge to wherever next

But for now, I say farewell

Konei ia, mō te tāke mōkai:

As someone whose a reo tuarua speaker/learner.. and a bit rino mate with it to be fair..

I cannot stand dictionary based reo.

Academic/reo tuturu is a great place TO START but ki au it doesn't feel like.. fluency. It feels like following a script.

Ko te kētanga i waenga "Ko te ngeru momona e noho ki te whāriki" raua ko "ko te ngeru kunekune e noho ki te whāriki mahana mā roto i te whiti o te rā"

Nē??

Like I saw an example of this on tiktok. "Hei aha māua" for "and what is it to you?" Rather than.. "E noho ake atu ki tō maara" me rangona au etāhi kīwaha i puta ai nō he wahi pākehā... Ehara he wahi māori.

Like.. start reading moteatea, oriori, pepehā, as the source for true language learning, rather than e whai ake i te reo o te kōhanga.

Kauaka e timata ia ki te peka.

Ka timata ia kē ki te weu.

Mauriora!!

Ata mārie ki a koutou, I hope everyone is well this morning and keeping warm!

I'm trying to get the grammar correct but the articles are vexing me; I'm trying to describe improving the characteristics of a material and what I've come up with is "mā hea hikitia ngā āhuatanga" - 'by improving the inherent qualities'

or should it read "mā e hikitia ngā āhuatanga"?

Thanks in advance! Kia pai to rā

I’m getting there with our beautiful language, but I’m a bit stuck on which of these is correct for what I’m trying to say? The quote I’m wanting to put up on my daughters wall is “Love is a verb” and I’ve got ‘Ko te aroha he tūmahi’ and then also ‘He kupumahi te aroha’

I believe for the second one using kupumahi instead of kupu mahi is correct because it’s more formal linguistically for the actual word “verb” but my knowledge base is still quite limited and I don’t know which of the two options above is right for what I need?

Any help would be hugely appreciated.
Ngā mihi.

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Kōrerotia te reo Māori!

Kei te pēhea koe? I pēhea tō wiki?

Kia ora koutou! I roto i tēnei whakataukī "Kua tau ngā purapura a Matariki ki te whenua, kua huihui ngā iwi i te pūmahana o te kotahitanga me te aroha", he aha te whakamāramatanga o te kupu "purapura"? Kāore te whakamāramatanga o te hukapapa me te hukarere i roto i a Te Aka.
(Tēnā koa, whakapāha mai mō taku wetereo hē.)

Kia ora!

In September, I am taking my two Māori-American kiddos (almost 8 and 10) back to the USA for several months. I am going to study part-time while being nearer to my own whānau for a wee bit. I will be homeschooling maths, history, and other subjects. However, it would be great to incorporate more Te Reo Māori into a schooling curriculum while we have the opportunity.

As an American immigrant living in the south South Island, my knowledge of Reo Māori has been limited. Both kids are involved in and really enjoy kapa haka, but that is almost the full extent of their exposure to Māori other than what is briefly taught at kura. Their Māori dad has basic knowledge; he grew up in a time when learning te reo wasn't widely embraced.

I was thinking about using Māori Made Easy with a corresponding kete for each kid and the audiobook. Are there other good resources for kids (maybe more specifically in a homeschool setting?)?

Supporting their journey as much as possible is important to me because it is a big part of their identity. Any helpful advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.

I will be doing my own language studying of Hungarian, so there will be a lot of linguistic inputs for several months around the whare.

Ngā mihi nui.

I really wanna learn Te reo but I'm really lost, idk, where to go for vocab, or for grammar. Let alone finding people to speak to. Tbh I don't want an app, or website, I want a group of people that I can practice with and to guide. (ofc apps and websites are welcome, but I've grown very tired of searching to find nothing but Duolingo lol)

Any advice or recourses would be welcomed.