Te Reo Māori
Tēnā koutou! Ko Tipene taku ingoa.
For a while I have had an interest in learning Māori. An acquaintance let me know that AUT's Te Ara Poutama faculty offered a course in Te Reo Māori. When I came to work in the Department of Statistics I met Werner and initially thought he was a relative of the Hawke family (Ngati Whatua O Orakei). Upon asking him I found he wasn't related but he encouraged me to do the course at AUT which he also was doing.
In mid-2004 I started the Te Taihu course at AUT.
This is a short collection of (hopefully) useful bits and pieces. I have a longer collection of notes which you may freely add to and correct.
Time
I wrote a little program to work out the current time of day.
So far it says:
Kotahi meneti pāhi i te rua karaka i te atapō te wā.
In addition to the exact time it knows midday, midnight, approximately quarter to / quarter past / half past, and on the hour.
Its method for choosing the difference between ahiahi
and pō
is quite crude. 7am is used for sunrise, and 7pm is used as sunset.
Email me for the algorithm.
Counting
So I wrote a program to count for me.
Email me for the algorithm.
The form is fairly easy. You have the numbers 1 - 10. For numbers 11 to 19 use 10 + (x - 10)
. For numbers 20 to 99 use floor(x / 10) * 10 + (x % 10)
.
Pronouns
Or in a handy tabular form (similiar to the one on the top of page tekau ma toru in Te Kākano):
| Number | me (+mā) |
us (+tā) |
you (+ko) |
them (+rā) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2 (+ua) | ||||
3+ (+tou) |
Unfortunately there are exceptions. You two
is kōrua
with a long o sound.
Long vowels, macrons, etc
I have shifted my page on the macron and alternative ways to type it (including doubling the vowel or using an umlaut).
Errors and Omissions Excepted.
In this page, Māori words are marked up in the HTML with the ISO language code of mi
, while the remainder of the document is en
. Highlight all the Māori on this page.