Mahau

Wellington City Council

Overview

Features:
  • Swipe-to-Read™
  • Touch-to-Hear™
  • Touch-to-Spell™
  • Record your narration

Taranaki Whānui, Ngāti Toa and Wellington City Council are excited to launch Mahau, a new Māori language app to celebrate, encourage and share te reo Māori in Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Mahau is a free, easy-to-use, interactive app to help locals and visitors to get started on their reo journey with phrases created specifically for Wellington City.

Mahau was developed alongside Mana Whenua to enable the community to give te reo Māori a go any day and anywhere.

The app will also help users engage, speak and understand our local dialects of te reo Māori.

It even includes Wellington destinations and place names to help the user to build their own pepeha and mihimihi!

“This app caps off a significant year for Māori and te reo in Pōneke. This is a continuation on the strong foundations laid by Te Tauihu o Te Reo Māori, the Māori Language policy created to celebrate te reo Māori and support the revitalisation of the language within Council activities and Wellington City, ultimately supporting Pōneke in becoming a bilingual city by 2040 – 200 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.”

Karepa Wall, Wellington City Council’s Tātai Heke Māor

Other Mahi

Tuia Te Ao

Spark NZ

Tuia te ao is an educational resource for Spark New Zealand staff to learn basic Māori language and protocol to support their day to day mahi (work).

Language Māori
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Te Waka Tipua o Mataatua

Te Tawera Hapū, Iramoko marae, Ngāti Awa I Ministry of Education New Zealand

Te Waka Tipua o Mataatua is an immersive, image-rich narrative of the voyage of the great Mataatua waka.

Education Language Māori Youth
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Tuku

Sky NZ

Tuku is a Māori cultural capability app developed for Rangiata Sky, designed to empower individuals and organisations to embrace and enrich their understanding of Māori culture, language, and practices.

Language Māori
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