This table shows words from te reo Māori (as used in the north of New Zealand) and Tahitian recorded in the journal of Joseph Banks, a naturalist who accompanied British explorer James Cook on his 1768–71 voyage to the Pacific. The two columns on the right give the contemporary spellings of these words. The similarities between the two languages – both from the Tahitic branch of the Austronesian language family – are apparent.
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