Comments on: Maori language in Hawaii http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/08/30/maori-language/ language-related musings - one language is never enough / ერთი ენა არასოდეს არაა საკმარისი Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:19:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Nongandwong http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/08/30/maori-language/#comment-73518 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:27:35 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/08/30/maori-language/#comment-73518 Not quite as distant as English and Swedish. They only look very different because of the consonant changes. Maori K = Hawai'ian ' Wh = H NG = N R = L T = K After knowing that, hundreds of Maori words (about 70% of the vocabulary) are the same as Hawai'ian tangata = kanaka (person) waka = wa'a (boat) whare = hale (house) atu = aku (away) The vowels usually correspond one-to-one, and that is why the mutual intelligibility of both languages will be higher than between English and Swedish Not quite as distant as English and Swedish. They only look very different because of the consonant changes.
Maori K = Hawai’ian ‘
Wh = H
NG = N
R = L
T = K

After knowing that, hundreds of Maori words (about 70% of the vocabulary) are the same as Hawai’ian

tangata = kanaka (person)
waka = wa’a (boat)
whare = hale (house)
atu = aku (away)

The vowels usually correspond one-to-one, and that is why the mutual intelligibility of both languages will be higher than between English and Swedish

]]> by: BG http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/08/30/maori-language/#comment-58858 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:57:19 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/08/30/maori-language/#comment-58858 From looking at the UDHR Maori and Hawaiin don't look mutually intellegible. As a random guess I would say it would probably be something like the similarity between English and Swedish. From looking at the UDHR Maori and Hawaiin don’t look mutually intellegible. As a random guess I would say it would probably be something like the similarity between English and Swedish.

]]> by: AR http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/08/30/maori-language/#comment-58846 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:16:56 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/08/30/maori-language/#comment-58846 That's interesting. Hawai'ian is closely related to Marquesan and Tahitian and a bit farther related to Maori. I always wondered how much Hawai'ians and Maoris could understand each other. Captain Cook had used a Tahitian to translate when he arrived in Hawai'i. That’s interesting. Hawai’ian is closely related to Marquesan and Tahitian and a bit farther related to Maori. I always wondered how much Hawai’ians and Maoris could understand each other. Captain Cook had used a Tahitian to translate when he arrived in Hawai’i.

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