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

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Te Kupenga

Hawkes Bay Regional Council

We’ve created this app to be an effective resource and rallying point for you as you begin your journey to learn some important aspects of Māori culture under the mantle of Ngā Kaunihera o Te Matau a Māui – The Councils of Hawke’s Bay.

Language Māori
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E heke e Heka!

SCION

Empower rangatahi (young people) and community with knowledge about myrtle rust.

Māori Science
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Hāpai Kotahi

UNICEF

Hāpai Kotahi has been developed as an effective resource and rallying point for UNICEF Aotearoa staff. Hāpai Kotahi will help staff learn some important aspects of tikanga Māori (customs) and reo Māori (language).

Language Māori
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