No ‘s’ in Te Reo Māori? Colonisation, Orthographic Standardisation, and a Disappearing Sibilant

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aut.filerelease.date2023-01-20
aut.relation.articlenumber1en_NZ
aut.relation.endpage20
aut.relation.issue1en_NZ
aut.relation.journalTe Kaharoa. The Journal of Maori and Indigenous Researchen_NZ
aut.relation.pages20
aut.relation.startpage1
aut.relation.volume16en_NZ
aut.researcherMoon, Evan
dc.contributor.authorMoon, Pen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-15T23:16:57Z
dc.date.available2023-01-15T23:16:57Z
dc.date.copyright2023-01-20en_NZ
dc.date.issued2023-01-20en_NZ
dc.description.abstractIt is practically universal, in contemporary works dealing with te reo Māori (the Māori language) to observe that there is no ‘s’ sound in the language. This applies to plural forms of nouns (for which there is a tendency in English, when it comes to foreign nouns, to pluralise by adding an ‘s’) and in the vocabulary more generally. This article investigates the evidence for the claim that in some Māori dialects, the ‘s’ sound was used historically, and explores a range of possibilities for the consonant effectively disappearing from spoken te reo Māori by the middle of the twentieth century, and much earlier from written forms of the language.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationTe Kaharoa, Vol. 16, No. 1, Journal 18, 2023, ISSN 1178-6035
dc.identifier.issn1178-6035en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/15807
dc.publisherTe Ara Poutama, Auckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectColonisation; Māori; standardisation; orthography
dc.titleNo ‘s’ in Te Reo Māori? Colonisation, Orthographic Standardisation, and a Disappearing Sibilanten_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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