Cute but slight, Kiri is close to several other names from Kiriah to Keira to Kyra and its diminutive Kyrie. Kiri Continued Nyree Origin: English from Maori Meaning: "flaxen" Description: Anglicized form of Ngaire, this name is sometimes heard in New Zealand and very occasionally in ...
incantatory, natural history, idiomatic, abbreviated, tribal and other names and terms of and allusions to persons, things, acts, and places in ancient times, also showing their affinities with cognate Polynesian dialects and foreign languages, with copious pure Maori examples, has a sad history ...
New Zealand Post recognizes Maori place-names in postal addresses. Dealings with government agencies may be conducted in Maori, but in practice this almost always requires interpreters, restricting its everyday use to the limited geographical areas of high Maori fluency, and to more formal occasions,...
“Land ahoy!” He’s looking at a headland that extends far out into the blue Pacific. So delighted is Cook by the sighting, he names the landmark Young Nick’s Head after
Although Chinese and Indian immigrants have long settled in New Zealand, since the 1990s there has been a large growth in migration from Asia. Languages New Zealand is predominantly an English-speaking country, though English, Māori, and New Zealand Sign Language are official languages. Virtually ...
Suggestions on officially replacing English-language place names with traditional Maori ones have been rejected. So when a police car was designed using Maori , it was blamed by some people as ridiculous because of the higher Maori rates of arrest and imprisonment.(1)How does the author ...
If teacher education faculties are permitting their students to mispronounce Maori names or words, they are in fact doing a disservice, not only to the Maori language, but also to the students destined to teach in English medium schools and the children who attend these schools. This paper ...
One of the great battlegrounds in the Culture Wars is over names, and marriage equality won this hands down. This framing was not the incumbent: early battles were waged for “marriage equality” to supplant “gay marriage”/”same-sex marriage” as the preferred term, and it was successful...
New Zealand has three official (官方的) languages: English, Maori and New Zealand Sign Language. Many places in New Zealand have Maori names. "Kia ora" is a Maori language greeting (问侯). In 1865, Wellington took Auckland's place and became the capital ( 首都) of New Zealand, but the...
It is often said that a sense of inferiority vis-à-vis the Pakeha has fuelled Maori grievances. But so has its opposite—the hauteur of a people who have lived in a country for a thousand years and can overlay every part of the landscape with names in their genealogy; a people who ca...