Moriori language
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| Moriori | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | New Zealand | |
| Region | Polynesia | |
| Total speakers | unknown | |
| Language family | Austronesian
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| Writing system | Latin | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Moriori is a formerly extinct[1] Malayo-Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori. It is the native language of the Moriori, the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands (Rekohu in Moriori), which are east of New Zealand and under its sovereignty.
The invasion from Taranaki had a heavy impact on Moriori population, culture and language, with only 101 Moriori remaining in 1862,[2] and few speaking the language by the 1870s.[3] However, Samuel Deighton, Resident Magistrate on the Chathams from 1873 to 1891, compiled a short vocabulary of Moriori words, with their equivalents in Māori and English. The vocabulary was published as an appendix of Michael King's Moriori: A People Rediscovered.
The language was reconstructed for parts of the 2000 film The Feathers of Peace,[4] which recreated in documentary style the history of contact between the Moriori people and Pākehā and Māori.
In 2001, as part of a cultural revival movement, Moriori people began attempts to revive the language, and compiled a database of Moriori words.[5]
The 2006 New Zealand Census showed 945 people choosing to include "Moriori" amongst their tribal affiliations, compared to 35 people in the 1901 census.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "Maori: A language of New Zealand". 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mri. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
- ^ Denise Davis & Māui Solomon (28-Oct-2008). "Moriori: The impact of new arrivals". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage. http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/Moriori/4/en. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
- ^ King, Michael (1989), Moriori: A People Rediscovered, Auckland: Viking, p. 136
- ^ "The Feathers of Peace (2000)". IMDb.
- ^ Denise Davis & Māui Solomon (28-Oct-2008). "Moriori: The second dawn". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage. http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/Moriori/5/en. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
- ^ Denise Davis & Māui Solomon (28-Oct-2008). "Moriori: Facts and figures". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage. http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/Moriori/6/en. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
[edit] Further reading
- Galbraith, Sarah. A Grammar of the Moriori language.
- Clark, R. (1994). "Moriori and Maori: The Linguistic Evidence". In Sutton, D. (ed) The origins of the First New Zealanders. Auckland: Auckland University Press. pp.123-135.
