WELLINGTON: When 34-year-old Tze Wee enrolled in primary school many years ago, he went to a Maori-emphasis class because of ...

Discover how the Maori language, once near extinction, is experiencing a remarkable revival and becoming a source of national ...

MR. COLENSO'S Maori English Lexicon, being, as stated on the title-page, a comprehensive dictionary of the New Zealand tongue, including mythical, mythological, “taboo” or sacred, genealogical, ...

Maori Television has successfully launched an initiative to widen the channel’s Maori news and current affairs coverage and accessibility to all audiences. TE KAEA – the channel’s flagship news ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Service (OSH) of the Department of Labour has produced The English-Maori Glossary of Occupational Safety and Health terms. "This glossary has been created as there ...

BANGKOK, Sept 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's a friendly greeting heard everywhere in New Zealand, but charges of cultural appropriation have pitted Kiwis with indigenous Maori heritage against ...

If New Zealand registers at all in the American consciousness, it is as an in­credibly beautiful landscape associated with cinematic hobbits and orcs. But the country also has a surprising religious ...

English has taken most words from Latin and French but many Te Reo words now appear. Te Reo Maori is among the top 20 of English's most borrowed-from languages in between Russian and Hindi, a book ...

More than 35,000 New Zealanders rally at parliament in support of Maori rights - Protesters oppose bill which critics say ...

The Nepia family from left, Tamahau, 13,Te Ao Marama 4, Kiley, Donna Johnstone, Mareikura, 7 months, and Kiri Pounamu, 9, speak te reo at home. Photo: SCOTT HAMMOND Maori culture can often be ...

“I live in the Maori world,” says Te Mairiki Williams. He says this because I have asked him about his moko, the tattoo that covers his face. I asked because this is not a usual thing you see these ...