Te Tai – Treaty Settlement Stories

Kōrero: Te Mana o te Reo Māori

Ahorangi o mua Ray Harlow

He Ahorangi e kaingākau ana ki te reo Māori.
Tākuta Ray Harlow.
He whakaahua o Tākuta Ray Harlow.
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Ko Tākuta Ray Harlow tētahi o ngā tino tohunga wetereo mō ngā reo o Poronīhia. I hāpai hoki ia i Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato kia noho hei kaikōkiri i roto i ngā akoranga Māori.

Ko ia tētahi o ngā mema tumu whakarae i Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori (1987—93), ko ia anake hoki te Pākehā kua noho ki tēnei tūranga. He maha tonu āna pukapuka i tuhia mō te reo Māori hei tohutoro ki ngā āhuatanga o te reo, tae atu ki tāna pukapuka tino nui, A Māori Reference Grammar.

Nā āna mahi rangahau, kua kitea te ātaahua, ā, kua tahuri mai te ao ki te reo Maori. Ko āna mahi, kei te tautoko i te puna reo o MAONZE (te reo Māori me te reo Pākehā) e pupuri ana i ētahi hopukanga reo Māori, reo Pākehā hoki, o ngā 70 kaikōrero tāne, wāhine hoki, o ngā whakatipuranga rerekē hoki. Kei roto hoki i te puna reo, he hopukanga hoki o ngā tāngata 18, he tāne, he wāhine hoki i whānau mai i te rautau 19, i hangaia ēnei hopukanga i ngā tau whakamutunga o te rautau 20.

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