I am a student at Texas A&M, doing research about the marine vessels of the Maori. I have been fascinated since I was very young, and I am quite rigid about spelling and speaking words correctly. This is a great video. Thank you.
I'm not even from NZ but languages pique my interest in general, so does te reo as of recently. I find it fascinating that te reo shares similarities with Filipino (Tagalog specifically), my native tongue. We also grow up learning that vowel song, albeit in different melody. And every letter is pronounced. Also, our non-borrowed words pair consonants with vowels, akin to Japanese. We also have a the "Ng" letter, even pronounced the same way as in te reo! I wonder the correlation. Any historians/linguists here please? Lol.
Te Reo Māori, like other Polynesian languages are from a language group called Austronesian. The language geography includes, the Malay Peninsula, Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Oceania, Easter Island, Taiwan and Hainan (China). As Tagalog is Austronesian, this is why you may be able to understand similarities.
I am a student at Texas A&M, doing research about the marine vessels of the Maori. I have been fascinated since I was very young, and I am quite rigid about spelling and speaking words correctly. This is a great video. Thank you.
Sharon. What a rawe resource. I am heading back to watch again. Jude
Thank you this is a great video and very important.
I agree with all of this, and an added benefit you missed is that other rugby teams wont be able to steal our lineout calls
I'm not even from NZ but languages pique my interest in general, so does te reo as of recently. I find it fascinating that te reo shares similarities with Filipino (Tagalog specifically), my native tongue.
We also grow up learning that vowel song, albeit in different melody. And every letter is pronounced. Also, our non-borrowed words pair consonants with vowels, akin to Japanese. We also have a the "Ng" letter, even pronounced the same way as in te reo!
I wonder the correlation. Any historians/linguists here please? Lol.
Te Reo Māori, like other Polynesian languages are from a language group called Austronesian. The language geography includes, the Malay Peninsula, Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Oceania, Easter Island, Taiwan and Hainan (China). As Tagalog is Austronesian, this is why you may be able to understand similarities.
Hahahaha. Dead on about the comment of being scared to pronounce Māori but I'm trying to learn from now on!