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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ngā mihi : Joshua Toki, left, and Regan Stokes begin their classes in te reo Maori at Burnside High School. Photo: JOHN KIRK ANDERSON Regan Stokes is a young English teacher at Burnside High School, ...

ANALYSIS: Researchers combed through newspaper articles over a period of 10 years and found more adopted Māori words into English is more frequent today. Ask the average Kiwi on the street about Māori ...

Reporters in New Zealand are getting hate mail for occasionally using Maori words in their broadcasts — despite it being one of the country's official languages. More often on radio and TV broadcasts ...

The king of New Zealand’s Indigenous Maori people died Friday while recovering from heart surgery at age 69, with aides saying he had “passed to the great beyond”. King Tuheitia passed away peacefully ...