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Kōrero: Te reo Māori – the Māori language

Ko Tupaia rāua ko Kuki

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Tupaia and Cook

E whakaatu ana tēnei tānga o Michel Tuffery, ara a 'Tupaia's chart Cook and Banks/Tupaia's and Parkinson's paintbox', i ngā pūkenga maha o te rangatira (arioi) Māori o Tahiti (Maohi) a Tupaia. I haere mai a Tupaia ki Aotearoa i te taha o Kāpene Kuki i te tau 1769. Neke atu i te 100 ngā moutere o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa i haerea, nā Tupaia i kawe. He mea tauira te whakaahua o te Māori me te Pākehā e hoko koura ana i tētahi o ngā whakaahua a Tupaia. Nā te ōrite o te reo Māori me te reo o Tahiti, ka noho ko Tupaia hei kaiwhakamārama reo mā Kuki i tōna ūnga ki Ōpoutama (ko Cooks Cove) i Ūawa.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Michel Tuffery

by Michel Tuffery

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Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, Te reo Māori – the Māori language – Pākehā engagement with te reo, 1769 to 1840s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/41064/ko-tupaia-raua-ko-kuki (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 13 March 2013, updated 1 September 2015.