Rarotongan
Māori Kūki 'Āirani
Rarotongan is an Austronesian language spoken in Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia, and Cook Islands, by about 17.5 thousand people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Cook Islands Māori is an Eastern Polynesian language that is an official language of the Cook Islands. It is closely related to, but distinct from, New Zealand Māori. Cook Islands Māori is called just Māori when there is no need to distinguish it from New Zealand Māori. It is also known as Māori Kūki ʻĀirani (or Maori Kuki Airani), or as Rarotongan. Many Cook Islanders also call it Te Reo Ipukarea, which translates as 'the language of the ancestral homeland'.
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Written down
Kua anau rangatira ia te tangata katoatoa ma te aiteite i te au tikaanga e te tu ngateitei tiratiratu. Kua ki ia ratou e te mero kimi ravenga e te akavangakau e kia akono tetai i tetai, i roto i te vaerua piri anga taeake.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Rarotongan
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | va'ine | |
| water | vai | |
| sky | rangi | |
| horse | ʻoroʻenua | |
| one | taʻi | |
| two | rua | |
| three | toru | |
| four | ā | |
| five | rima | |
| ten | ngaʻuru | |
| I | au | |
| coffee | kaope | |
| salt | miti | |
| honey | meri | |
| apple | ‘āpara | |
| house | 'are |
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Grammar
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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