Maori Language Week highlights transport links with Maori

21 July 2014

Maori Language Week highlights transport links with Maori

Maori language week kicks off today and Auckland Transport will be emphasising language links in the Auckland area.

There will be kapa haka (song and dance) performances in some key transport interchanges and posters on trains, buses and ferries displaying phonetic pronunciation guides in Maori to commuters for common destinations.

The key message of the posters is emphasise the value of correct Maori pronunciation and to familiarise travellers with tradition Maori names for some Auckland locations.

The week began at Britomart Station with a kapa haka performance in front of the gates, free pork and puha soup for commuters and information handed out by local kura (school) children.

Throughout the week there will be morning performances for travellers at Panmure Interchange, Smales Farm busway station, the New Lynn Interchange, and Manukau train station.

Auckland Transport was the winner of Te Wiki o te reo Māori (Māori Language week) award by the Māori Language Commission, Te Taura Whiri in 2012 and 2013 and we are proud to continue to support the week again this year.

Tipa Compain, the Māori Policy and Engagement Manager at Auckland Transport says Public Transport physically intersects Māori culture and history of Auckland at many points and Māori Language Week is an opportunity to emphasise how deeply Te Reo Māori is integrated into the transport network.

“Our starting or destination points have a rich Māori history and traditional names, and this week is about celebrating that history”, he says.

“This year we are also using our network to introduce everyday kupu (words) and phrases to encourage use of the language. We want all Aucklanders to give it a go”.

Ka whakanuia e te Wiki o te Reo Māori nga tūhononga mahi kawe tangata

Kua hora anō te wiki o te reo Māori i te ra nei 21 o Hōngongoi, tērā hoki Auckland Transport te whakatairanga i nga tūhononga o te reo i Tāmaki Makaurau nei.

Tērā ētahi mahi kapa ka whakaaritia i ētahi o ngā pokapu kawekawe tāngata matua, ka whakairihia hoki he pānui ki runga tereina, pahi me nga waka tere mau pāhihi, e tohu ana i te āta whakahua a taringa nei o ngā ingoa wāhi whakatau te haere noatia ana.

Ko te aronga nui o nga pānui he whakatauki i nga painga o te whakahua tika i te reo Māori me te whakamatau i te hunga haerērē noa ki nga ingoa taketake o ētahi wāhi o Tāmaki Makaurau.

Ka timata te wiki nei ki te Teihana o Britomart (Rerenga o Raiti) me te whakaari kapa haka i nga keti tomokanga tonu. He hupa poaka me te puha ma te hunga haere ma runga tereina, me ētahi pnui kōrero ka tohatohaina e nga tamariki o nga kura a kāinga ake.

Puta noa i te wiki ka tu he whakaari mō te hunga taki haerērē ki nga pokapū o Panmure, Te teihana ara pahi o Smales Farm, te hononga ki New Lynn me te teihana tereina o Manukau.

Ko Auckland Transport i whakawhiwhia ki te tohu toa ate Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori mo te Wiki o te Reo Māori mo nga tau 2012 me te 2013, heoi ra ka tūwhakahīhī tonu mātou ki te tautoko anō i tenei wiki i tēnei tau.

He ai ki a Tipa Compain, te kaiwhakahaere i nga tikanga me nga tuhononga Māori i Auckland Transport nei, e hia kē nga tāpaenga atu a nga mahi Kawe Tūmatarau ki nga ritenga me ngā tikanga tuku iho o Tāmaki Makaurau, ara ko te Wiki o te Reo Māori tētahi o nga tikanga e kitea ai te whai wāhi tūturu o te reo Māori i roto i nga whakahaere a te kōtuinga kawe tāngata.

“Ko nga wāhi e tīmata, e tutuki ai rānei a tatou haerenga e pokea ana e te korero me te ingoa Māori tuku iho, he whakanui i taua hitori te.

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