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

Rūaumoko – The Rumbling Voice

Ministry of Education New Zealand

This resource is an interactive app narrated by Deaf Māori students that tells their story of Rūaumoko, the Māori God of Earthquakes.

Education Language Māori
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Kia Mārama

ACC

Tēnā koe! Nau mai, haere mai! Welcome to our Māori cultural app, Kia Mārama.

Language Māori
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Āke Āke

He Kāmaka Waiora

Pronunciation of te reo Māori, cultural protocol and waiata are the main focus of this new mobile app, Āke Āke, launched by Waitematā and Auckland District Health Boards.

Language Māori
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