MAORI LANGUAGE

Genealogy – Whakapapa

Most Maori traditional narrative includes some whakapapa or genealogical record of a connection between the various characters in the story. The web of the tale is often so entwined as to require the explanation afforded by the whakapapa.

• MAORI LANGUAGE

• Creating a Written Language

• Parts of Speech

• Formal Structure

• Pronunciation

• Vowels and Digraphs

• Marking Vowels

• Prefixes

• Transliteration

• Preservation of Classical Maori

• Genealogy – Whakapapa

• Songs

• Dialectical Differences

• Some Present-day Observations: Vocabulary

• Teaching of the Maori Language

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.