First Lessons in the Maori Language of New Zealand

First Lessons in the Maori Language of New Zealand

Author: W L Williams

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015613614

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First Lessons in Maori

First Lessons in Maori

Author: W. L. Williams

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1473341337

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This vintage book contains the thirteenth edition of "First Lessons in Maori", a practical and comprehensive coursebook for learning the Maori language. Covering everything from prepositions to relative clauses, this volume will be of considerable utility to modern readers with an interest in the subject, and it would make for a superb addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "The Maori Alphabet", "Nouns and Personal Pronouns", "Prepositions", "Definitives", "Adjectives", "Numerals", "Sentences without Verbs", "Verbs", "Neuter Verbs", "Relative Clauses", "Miscellaneous", "Progressive Exercises", "Key to Exercises", "Conversations", "Vocabulary-English-Maori", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork. First published in 1965.


Beginner's Maori

Beginner's Maori

Author: K. T. Harawira

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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The Beginner's Series is designed to meet the bilingual needs of the traveling businessperson, tourist, and student. These language lessons cover such common situations as: passing through customs, checking into a hotel, placing phone calls, going to the post office, and extending and accepting invitations. First learn about the country's history and culture, acquaint yourself with social customs, restaurant practices, and transportation systems. Then learn basic language skills, including vocabulary, grammar, and useful phrases that will have you communicating with natives and moving about feeely. Clear, easy to use, and insightful, the Beginner's Series will introduce you to the languages of the world.


The Pōrangi Boy

The Pōrangi Boy

Author: Shilo Kino

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2020-10-23

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1775505006

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Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring – and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Niko’s grandfather is busy protesting. People call him pōrangi, crazy, but when he dies, it’s up to Niko to convince his community that the taniwha is real and stop the prison from being built. With help from his friend Wai, Niko must unite his whānau, honour his grandfather and stand up to his childhood bully.


Let's Learn Maori

Let's Learn Maori

Author: Bruce Biggs

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781869401863

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"This work comprises a textbook and self-help guide to the study of the Maori language. It is also a complete grammar reference, covering parts of speech, the structure of each type of phrase and the combinations of phrases that form simple sentences"--Publisher's description.


Maori

Maori

Author: Ray Harlow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-04-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1139461532

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Mäori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, is an endangered, minority language, with an important role in the culture and identity of the Mäori community. This comprehensive overview looks at all aspects of the Mäori language: its history, its dialects, its sounds and grammar, its current status and the efforts being made by the Mäori community and the state to ensure its survival. Central chapters provide an overall sketch of the structure of Mäori while highlighting those aspects which have been the subject of detailed linguistic analysis - particularly phonology (sound structure) and morphology (word structure). Though addressed primarily to those with some knowledge of linguistics, this book describes a language with a wealth of interesting features. It will interest anyone wishing to study the structure of a minority language, in fields as diverse as typology, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, as well as all those interested in endangered languages and their preservation.


Maori

Maori

Author: Winifred Bauer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 113497597X

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This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today, the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Maori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Maori of the past. Winifred Bauer offers a wide-ranging and detailed description of the structure of the language, covering syntax, morphology and phonology. Based upon narrative texts and data elicited from older native-speaking consultants and illustrated with a wealth of examples the book will be of interest to both linguistic theoreticians and descriptive linguists, including language typologists.


Teach Yourself Māori

Teach Yourself Māori

Author: K. T. Harawira

Publisher: Raupo

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780790003252

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A thorough guide to the Maori language, this introduction for the general reader assumes no prior knowledge and offers a comprehensive course of lessons and exercises, together with pronunciation advice and an extensive vocabulary, for successful study.