Te rereke koia! - Weird Sentences in Maori

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A Maori Podcast

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Kia ora! Welcome to this podcast! As per the title, it's a Maori podcast and I am Maori. I try to keep the podcast completely in Te Reo, this is mainly because I want to improve my own language skills, and the best way to do it is to completely speak the language. I share my insights into learning and improving my reo Maori skills especially as someone that doesn't reside back in the homeland. Hoi ano, nahaku noa, I hope that you enjoy this mahi, and I'm proud to be Maori and to share our language. Ko te reo kia rere!If you live abroad and need a place to hang out, I finally found a great hangout spot filled with Maori speakers here.Discord - Reo MaoriI also have a Patreon where I hope to add some additional value. You can find me here: https://patreon.com/amaoripodcast

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Te rereke koia! - Weird Sentences in Maori

A Maori Podcast

13 minutes

2 months ago

Te rereke koia! - Weird Sentences in Maori

Tena koutou!

So this episode I briefly chat on where I am at in my learning journey and some of the struggles I experience. I try to answer my own question of how to keep moving in my journey towards the reo.

Our topic of discussion are some weird sentences I came across, which I find super interesting. I cite Fumiko S. Yamada's dissertation:

Maori as a phrase based language, 2014. Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. pg. 161-

They cite, Boyce, Mary. 2006. A corpus of modern spoken Māori. Wellington: Victoria University of

Wellington dissertation.

(5.74) I mua o te whaka.tuwhera.tanga.hia o te marae nei nā…

at before POSS DET cause.open.NMLZ.PASS POSS DET marae here there

‘Before the opening of these marae…’

There are cases of -Canga attached to -Cia:

(5.75) …i mua o te kati.a.tanga o ngā hōhipera puta noa

at before POSS DET shut.PASS.NMLZ POSS DET.PL hospital throughout

‘…before the hospital’s being shut