COLUMN: A recent enquiry into the meaning of the Māori word “ko” – particularly when the enquirer advised that he had been told that “ko” means “is” – has prompted reflections on an issue which has ...

Ngā kupu 24,000 Māori tautuhitia i roto i te reo Māori: he taupānga mō tērā 24,000 Māori words defined in te reo Māori: there’s an app for that E wātea ana te papakupu reo Māori e mōhiotia nei ko He ...

Language commission hails normalisation of te reo Māori after years of work in identifying frequently mispronounced words ...

A “racist” attack targeting te reo Māori words on more than 40 Tauranga public bins has been referred to the police and described as a “sad reflection” on the local community. Following queries from ...

There may sometimes be a seeming translation of this word in the colloquial English “Hey!”: E Hone / haere mai. (“Hey, John, come on over.”). It’s almost certainly preferable, though, not to insist ...

Newly-added words include koha – a gift or offering – and kōrero, meaning a conversation or chat New Zealanders will now see the common and casual te reo Māori greeting Kia ora e hoa! – meaning “hi ...

Google and the Māori Language Commission have launched an Aotearoa New Zealand voice in Google Maps.

In an industry-leading move to bring te reo Māori into the realm of architecture and design, New Zealand company Peddlethorp launches ‘Room to Rūma’. Room to Rūma is a word library that can be added ...

In 2017, the Whanganui River was made a person in the eyes of the law. The Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act acknowledged, in its own way, that the human world includes other, ...