We quiz people on Māori words
By Eva Gallot and Zoe Madden-Smith
Research has found non-fluent speakers of te reo Māori know 70 Māori words on average but don’t yet have the skills to define them all.
To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, we quizzed people on these six Māori words.
Do you know what miraka means? (Hint: it was on the Whittaker’s chocolate packet).
Here are the kupu Māori:
Aroha - Love
Waiata - Singing or song
Miraka - Milk
Kura - School
Tuakana/Teina - Older sibling/Younger sibling (This can also the be the older/younger dynamic between friends, cousins and other family members)
Tuākana/Tēina - Relationship between multiple younger/older siblings or friends (plural use)
How many did you get right?
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