毛利语

毛利語（，也被稱為te reo，「語言」之意）是新西兰原住民毛利人的語言、也是紐西蘭的三種官方語言之一，另两种是英语和新西兰手语。毛利人從太平洋诸岛來到紐西蘭之後、語音基本上變化很少，基本上各地的人都可以溝通无碍。

語音系統

元音

輔音

文字 

毛利人原来没有文字，后来英国移民来到，採用拉丁字母拼写毛利语言，毛利语只有15個字母，分別如下：

 母音：A, E, I, O, U
 子音：H, K, M, N, Ng, P, R, T, W, Wh

當中“R”是顫音、“Wh”基本上發/f/音或/ɸ/音、但北部亦有發/h/音或/ʍ/的。

方言 
毛利語亦有地區性的方言，比較普遍的有 Tainui 和 Waikato 方言。

日曆

日常用語
Kia Ora: 你好

Morena: 早安

Po marie: 晚安

Ko wai tō ingoa: 你叫甚麼名字？

Ko___tōku ingoa: 我的名字是___

No___ahau: 我在___來

Haere mai: 歡迎

Haere ra: 再會

範例 
Ko te katoa o ngā tāngata i te whanaungatanga mai e wātea ana i ngā here katoa; e tauriterite ana hoki ngā mana me ngā tika. E whakawhiwhia ana hoki ki a rātou te ngākau whai whakaaro me te hinengaro mōhio ki te tika me te hē, ā e tika ana kia meinga te mahi a tētahi ki tētahi me ma roto atu i te wairua o te noho tahi, anō he teina he tuakana i ringa i te whakaaro kotahi.

漢譯：人皆生而自由；在尊嚴及權利上均各平等。人各賦有理性良知，誠應和睦相處，情同手足。（《世界人權宣言》第一條）

參考文獻

引用

文献 

 Biggs, Bruce (1994). Does Māori have a closest relative? In Sutton (ed.)(1994), pp. 96–105.
 Biggs, Bruce (1998). Let's Learn Māori. Auckland: Auckland University Press.
 Biggs, Bruce. 1988. Towards the study of Maori dialects. In Ray Harlow and Robin Hooper, eds. VICAL 1: Oceanic languages. Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Austronesian linguistics. Auckland, New Zealand. January 1988, Part I. Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand. 
 Bauer, Winifred (1997). Reference Grammar of Māori. Auckland: Reed.
 Bauer, Winifred. 1993. Maori. Routledge. Series: Routledge descriptive grammars. 
 Clark, Ross (1994). Moriori and Māori: The Linguistic Evidence. In Sutton (ed.)(1994), pp. 123–135.
 Harlow, Ray. 1996. Maori. LINCOM Europa. 
 Harlow, Ray (1994). Māori Dialectology and the Settlement of New Zealand. In Sutton (ed.)(1994), pp. 106–122.

參閲

毛利語盲文

外部連結 

 Māori Language Act 1987
 korero.maori.nz  Māori language educational resources
 Ethnologue report for Maori 
 Māori Language Commission  (sets definitive standards).
 English and Māori Word Translator, originally developed at the 奥塔哥大学.
 Ngata Māori–English English–Māori Dictionary from Learning Media; gives several options and shows use in phrases.
 Collection of historic Māori newspapers
 Maori Phonology 
 maorilanguage.net  Learn the basics of Māori Language with video tutorials
Microsoft New Zealand Māori Keyboard
 Maori Language Week (NZHistory)  - includes a history of the Māori language, the Treaty of Waitangi Māori Language claim and 100 words every New Zealander should know
 Huia Publishers , catalogue includes Tirohia Kimihia the world's first Māori monolingual dictionary for learners
 IMDb website; Māori language films 
 Publications about Māori language  from Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development

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