WELLINGTON: When 34-year-old Tze Wee enrolled in primary school many years ago, he went to a Maori-emphasis class because of ...

MR. COLENSO'S Maori English Lexicon, being, as stated on the title-page, a comprehensive dictionary of the New Zealand tongue, including mythical, mythological, “taboo” or sacred, genealogical, ...

Maori Television has successfully launched an initiative to widen the channel’s Maori news and current affairs coverage and accessibility to all audiences. TE KAEA – the channel’s flagship news ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Service (OSH) of the Department of Labour has produced The English-Maori Glossary of Occupational Safety and Health terms. "This glossary has been created as there ...

English has taken most words from Latin and French but many Te Reo words now appear. Te Reo Maori is among the top 20 of English's most borrowed-from languages in between Russian and Hindi, a book ...

Discover how the Maori language, once near extinction, is experiencing a remarkable revival and becoming a source of national ...

Ngā mihi : Joshua Toki, left, and Regan Stokes begin their classes in te reo Maori at Burnside High School. Photo: JOHN KIRK ANDERSON Regan Stokes is a young English teacher at Burnside High School, ...

The Nepia family from left, Tamahau, 13,Te Ao Marama 4, Kiley, Donna Johnstone, Mareikura, 7 months, and Kiri Pounamu, 9, speak te reo at home. Photo: SCOTT HAMMOND Maori culture can often be ...

English is the main language spoken in New Zealand, and I am very pleased that we have a language which is used in so many countries around the world. But Maori is also an official language in ...

“I live in the Maori world,” says Te Mairiki Williams. He says this because I have asked him about his moko, the tattoo that covers his face. I asked because this is not a usual thing you see these ...