Week 1

Question 1

What is whakapapa?

Answer 1

Geneology, all languages have this.

Question 2

What roots does English stem from?

Answer 2

Indo-European

Question 3

What roots does Maori stem from?

Answer 3

Malayo-Polynesian/Austronesian

Question 4

What languages are sister to Maori?

Answer 4

Cook Island Maori, Rapanui (Easter Island), Tahiti, Hawaii, Marquesas.

Question 5

When did first Maori Ancestors arrive here as Eastern Pacific Polynesians?

Answer 5

Between 1000 and 1400 years ago.

Question 6

What are the Maori vowels?

Answer 6

a, e, i, o, u.

Question 7

What are the Maori consonants?

Answer 7

STOPS: p, t, k. NASALS: m, n, nga. OTHERS: wh, r, w, h.

Question 8

Write out the Vowel Chart.

Answer 8

FRONT UNROUNDED BACK ROUNDED
HIGH i u
MID e o
LOW a

Question 9

What is a short syllable? (2)

Answer 9

Either a vowel alone, or a consonant plus one vowel.

Question 10

What is a long syllable? (3)

Answer 10

A long vowel/double vowel (a macron)
Two different vowels (diphthong)
Double vowel and another vowel (triphthong)

Question 11

What is a diphthong?

Answer 11

A syllable with two different vowels.

Question 12

What is a macron?

Answer 12

The line above a vowel, which represents a double vowel of same letter.

Question 13

What is a falling diphthong?

Answer 13

Higher to lower note (ie)

Question 14

What is a rising diphthong?

Answer 14

Lower to higher note (oe)

Question 15

What are y-glides and w-glides?

Answer 15

The sound between vowels which sound like english “y” or “w” sounds.

Question 16

Write out the consonants chart.

Answer 16

BI-LABIAL DENTAL ALVEOLAR VELAR GLOTTAL
STOP p t k
NASAL m n ng
FRICATIVE wh h
LABIAL w
FLAPPED r

Question 17

What are the two main phrases in Maori language?

Answer 17

1. Noun phrases (nominal)

2. Verbal phrases

Question 18

What are phrases composed of? (3)

Answer 18

1. Bases (nouns)
2. Particles (grammatical glue)
3. Affixes (markers attached to the bases, affix/suffix)

Question 19

What are articles?

Answer 19

A particular set of nominal particles.

Question 20

What are the four articles and what do they mean?

Answer 20

1. te ‘the’ (one)
2. ngaa ‘the’ (plural)
3. he ‘a, some’
4. a Personal

Question 21

What are the verbal particles and what do they mean? (7)

Answer 21

1. i ‘past’
2. E… ana ‘continuous, non-time’ (like “ing”)
3. ka ‘inceptive, non-time’ (has begun, not finished)
4. Kua ‘perfective’ (action has occurred, but recently)
5. Kia ‘desiderative’ (to desire)
6. Me ‘polite imperative’
7. E ‘direct imperative’

Question 22

What are the rules of particle “E”?

Answer 22

If there are less than 2 vowels in the base, keep “e”, if there are 3 or more vowels in the base, “e” is removed.

Question 23

When there is only one count, what happens?

Answer 23

“Kotahi te (base)”