This dictionary by P.M. Ryan, one of New Zealand's leading Maori language scholars, is the most up to date available. The Raupo Dictionary of Modern Maori contains over 50,000 concise entries divided into Maori-English and English-Maori sections. It includes all the words most commonly used by fluent Maori speakers, features a vocabulary list with words for new inventions, metric terms, modern concepts and some scientific, computet, technological and legal terms. It incorporates an easy-to-use guide to the pronunciation of Maori, a section on Maori grammar and includes separate lists giving Maori translations of seasons, months, and days of the week. It also contains a Maori proverbs section, complete with translations and interpretations, and a map of tribal areas.
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Höhe: 225 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 45 mm
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978-0-14-300932-0 (9780143009320)
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Pa Ryan came to Aotearoa in 1954 after studying in England and Holland. He was sent by the Mill Hill Missionary Society of London, England, which has supplied priests and brothers for the Maori people since 1886. Learning Maori language and customs was always their priority and so he was asked to serve in parishes in Northland and among the Arawa of Tororua and the Tainui people of Waikato. After seven years he took up a teaching post at Hato Petera College where he taught until 1976. He was then seconded to the Tamaki Maori Mission centred at Te Unga Waka, Epsom, where he is currently chaplain to the marae.
