Rarotongesisk

**Rarotongesisk** eller **Cookøy-maori** (*Māori Kūki 'Āirani* eller berre *Māori*) er eit austleg polynesisk språk frå Cookøyane. Saman med engelsk er det offisielt språk på øygruppa, der den største øya er Rarotonga.

Rarotongesisk er nært i slekt med maori, språket som blir tala på New Zealand. Det blir også kalla *māori* av talarane sine, men er eit eige språk som skil seg frå newzealandsk maori. Folk frå Cookøyane kan også kalla det *Te reo Ipukarea*, bokstaveleg 'språket frå ætteheimlandet'.

## Offisiell status
Rarotongesisk blei offisielt språk på Cookøyane i 2003. Engelsk hadde då vore einaste offisielle språk sidan 1915. Det har ikkje nokon offisiell status på New Zealand, sjølv om Cookøyane er tilknytt New Zealand (del av Realm of New Zealand).

## Skriftsystem og uttale
Standardiseringa av skriftsystemet til rarotongesisk er omdiskutert. Bruk av makron (־) eller *te makarona* og glottal stopp *amata* (ꞌ) (/ʔ/) er tilrådd, men blir sjeldan brukt av talarane i daglegdags skrift. Det rarotongesiske Nytestamentet bruker standardiserte diakritiske teikn når dei er fonemiske, men ikkje andre stader.

### Konsonantar

# Finst berre på Manihiki
# Finst berre på Penrhyn
# Finst berre på  Manihiki og Penrhyn

### Vokalar

### Personlege pronomen

#du -2 eller fleire - og eg
#dei og eg

## Kjelder

**Denne artikkelen bygger på «[[:en:Cook Islands Māori|Cook Islands Māori]]» frå ,  den 9. desember 2017.*  

;Litteraturliste 

* *[http://www.maori.org.ck Cook Islands Maori Database Project]*, An online project created to build a collection of Cook Islands Maori Words based on existing print dictionaries and other sources. 
* *[http://www.cook-islands-maori-dictionary.org Cook Islands Maori Dictionary]*, by Jasper Buse with Raututi Taringa, edited by Bruce Biggs and Rangi Moeka'a, Auckland, 1995.
* *A dictionary of the Maori Language of Rarotonga*, Manuscript by Stephen Savage, Suva :  IPS, USP in association with the Ministry of Education of the Cook Islands, 1983.
* *Kai Korero :  Cook Islands Maori Language Coursebook*, Tai Carpentier and Clive Beaumont, Pasifika Press, 1995. (A useful learning Method with oral skills cassette)
* *Cook Islands Cook Book* by Taiora Matenga-Smith. Published by the Institute of Pacific Studies.
* *Maori Lessons for the Cook Islands*, by Taira Rere. Wellington, Islands Educational Division, Department of Education, 1960.
* *Conversational Maori, Rarotongan Language*, by Taira Rere. Rarotonga, Government Printer. 1961.
* *Some Maori Lessons*, by Taira Rere. Rarotonga. Curriculum Production Unit, Department of Education. 1976.
* *More Maori Lessons*, by Taira Rere. Suva, University of the South Pacific.1976
* *Maori Spelling: Notes for Teachers*, by Taira Rere. Rarotonga: Curriculum Production Unit, Education Department.1977.
* *Traditions and Some Words of the Language of Danger or Pukapuka Island*. Journal of the Polynesian Society 13:173-176.1904.
* *Collection of Articles on Rarotonga Language*,  by Jasper Buse. London: University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. 1963.
* *Manihikian Traditional Narratives: In English and Manihikian: Stories of the Cook Islands (Na fakahiti o Manihiki)*. Papatoetoe, New Zealand: Te Ropu Kahurangi.1988
* *Te korero o Aitutaki, na te Are Korero o Aitutaki*, Ministry of Cultural Development, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 1992
* *Atiu nui Maruarua :  E au tua ta'ito*, Vainerere Tangatapoto et al. University of South Pacific, Suva 1984. (in Maori and English)
* *Learning Rarotonga Maori*, by Maki'uti Tongia, Ministry of Cultural Development, Rarotonga 1999.
* *Te uri Reo Maori (translating in Maori)*, by Maki'uti Tongia, Punanga o te reo. 1996.
* *Atiu, e enua e tona iti tangata*, te au tata tuatua Ngatupuna Kautai...(et al.), Suva, University of the South Pacific.1993. (Maori translation of *Atiu :  an island Community*)
* *A vocabulary of the Mangaian language* by Christian, F. W. 1924. Bernice P. Bishop Bulletin 2. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
* E au tuatua ta'ito no Manihiki, Kauraka Kauraka, IPS, USP, Suva. 1987.

## Bakgrunnsstoff

* Cook Islands Maori Database
* Dictionary of Cook Islands Languages.
* Te akataka reo Rarotonga; or, Rarotongan and English grammar by the Rev Aaron Buzacott of the London Missionary Society, Rarotonga. 1854. Old grammar in english and Rarotongan
* "Tuatua mai!" Learn Cook Islands Maori 
* Te Reo Maori Act 2003
* SBS Cook Islands Maori Radio Program.  Updated each week
* http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/dictionaries.asp
* http://www.cookislandsmaori.com/ Online version of Jasper Buse and Raututi Taringa Dictionary
* Cook Islands Ministry of Cultural Development
* Te Reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani i roto i te Kurakarāma o Aotearoa (Cook Islands Maori in the New Zealand Curriculum)
* Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands (c. 1883–1912) at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
* Box of 324 index cards of plant and animal names archived with Kaipuleohone
* Paradisec has an open access collection of Cook Island Maori materials
* Materials on Cook Islands Maori are included in the open access [Arthur Capell] collection (AC1) held by Paradisec.