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A Respository of Knowledge: Maatauranga Maori

Expertise: 
Environment, Indigenous Development, Kaupapa Māori Research, Law / Justice, Science / Engineering, Te Reo Māori, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

The purpose of this project is to create a repository of knowledge for all information identified as mātauranga Māori. Having this knowledge recorded and collected within the Sustainable Seas
Challenge will help identify where mātauranga Māori has been used to integrate with other knowledge frameworks, and how it contributed to the distinctive products, processes, systems and services of the Challenge. Other factors that would be captured:
• The source of the mātauranga Māori (who the knowledge came from).

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James Whetu

An A-Wh Grammar and Usage of The Māori Language

Expertise: 
Education, Linguistics / Language, Te Reo Māori
Region: 
Waikato

A linguistic approach to describe the Māori language very often involves an analysis of phonology, morphology, and syntactic structures at the sentence level. However, a semantic approach, specific to this project, attempts to describe te reo beyond this level by taking into consideration meaning, context, and social and cultural communicative competencies as partially informed by Kaupapa Māori theory (KMt).

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Michael William Taiapa

He rito whakakīnga whārua: Language value and development in communities

Expertise: 
Te Reo Māori

Even after 30 years of Māori language revitalisation movements, the Māori language continues to be in a perilous state. Despite these efforts there is no one method that can stem the decline as societal factors still impact adversely on language development. The most successful Māori language revitalisation movements are those located at the ‘flax-roots’ level.  However, as highlighted in the Pre-publication of the Waitangi Tribunal’s WAI 262 Report, there are a number of factors that have eroded Māori language revitalisation movements since the mid 1990s.

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Poia Rewi
Rawinia Higgins

Kia Areare ki ngā Reo o ngā Tīpuna – Revitalising the Maori Language Using Archival Recordings

Expertise: 
Te Reo Māori

Despite an increase in the number of people speaking Maori today, the quality of the language being used has declined as the number of native-speakers of Maori language has declined. This seminar is about a research project based on twenty hour-long recordings from Radio Kahungunu featuring two elderly women conversing in the Maori language. The rationale behind the project is to use the recorded voices of elders to help revitalise the Maori language.

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Joseph Te Rito