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Kōrero: Te reo Māori – the Māori language

'Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Māori'

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Ko te hōtaka o Waka huia o te tau 1988, ko Tā Hemi Henare kei te kōrero mō te oranga o te reo, “Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Māori”. I puta i a ia tēnei kōrero ki mua i te aroaro o Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi i te tau 1985; i te mutunga iho whakahuatia ai i te pūrongo a te Taraipiunara, inā te roanga ake:

Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Māori.
Ko te kupu te mauri o te reo Māori.
E rua ēnei wehenga kōrero e hāngai tonu ana ki runga i te reo Māori.
Ko te reo, nō te Atua mai.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

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Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, Te reo Māori – the Māori language – Language decline, 1900 to 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/41077/ko-te-reo-te-mauri-o-te-mana-maori (accessed 4 June 2026).

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

Comments

Te Aroha Clark
12 May 2017
You were once a great leader and I aspire to be just like you or even more in near future. I asked with humblness to use your quote in my manu korero speech. Aroha mai, nga mihi