Moriori, or ta rē Moriori ('the Moriori language'), is a Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori. It is spoken by the Moriori, the...
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landing from the Rodney The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). Moriori are Polynesians who came...
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The Moriori genocide was the mass murder and enslavement of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of the...
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Karaka (tree) (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
Carvings on karaka trees, known as rākau momori in the Moriori language, typically depict Moriori ancestors and are considered internationally significant...
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associated state of the Cook Islands Moriori language – formerly spoken in New Zealand's Chatham Islands Niuean language – spoken in the New Zealand associated...
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Chatham Islands (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
The Chatham Islands (/ˈtʃætəm/ CHAT-əm) (Moriori: Rēkohu, lit. 'Misty Sun'; Māori: Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 800 km (430 nmi)...
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Tommy Solomon (category Moriori people)
19 March 1933) is believed by most to have been the last Moriori of unmixed ancestry. Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands. Solomon...
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Pitt Island (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
Pitt Island (Moriori: Rangihaute, Māori: Rangiauria) is the second largest island in New Zealand's Chatham Islands, with an area of 65 square kilometres...
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New Zealand fantail (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
pīwakawaka, tīwakawaka or piwaiwaka, and the Chatham Island subspecies by the Moriori name tchitake; the common pied morph is also known as pied fantail (not...
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Chatham Island (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
Chatham Island (/ˈtʃætəm/ CHAT-əm) (Moriori: Rēkohu, lit. 'Misty Sun'; Māori: Wharekauri) is the largest island of the Chatham Islands group, in the south...
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Waitangi, Chatham Islands (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
Waitangi (originally called Waiteki by Moriori) is the main port and largest settlement of the Chatham Islands. It is situated on along the southern shore...
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Black robin (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
The black robin or Chatham Island robin (Moriori: karure, Māori: kakaruia; Petroica traversi) is an endangered bird from the Chatham Islands off the east...
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New Zealand swan (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
The New Zealand swan (Moriori: poūwa, Cygnus sumnerensis) is an extinct indigenous swan from the Chatham Islands and the South Island of New Zealand....
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Dieffenbach's rail (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
Dieffenbach's rail (Hypotaenidia dieffenbachii), known in the Moriori language as meriki or mehoriki, is an extinct flightless species of bird from the...
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"reputed to be the last living man to have direct knowledge of the Moriori language". Natusch, Sheila. "Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Baucke". Dictionary of...
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Arborglyph (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
New Zealand, the indigenous Moriori people practised the art of momori rakau, or tree carving. The carvings depict Moriori karapuna (ancestors) and symbols...
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List of genocides (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
Michael (2000). Moriori: a People Rediscovered (Revised ed.). Viking. pp. 57–58. ISBN 0-14-010391-0. King, Michael (1989). Moriori: A People Rediscovered...
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Shore plover (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
The shore plover (Māori: tūturuatu, Moriori: tchūriwat’, Charadrius novaeseelandiae), also known as the shore dotterel, is a small plover endemic to New...
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Flag of the Chatham Islands (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
the Chatham Islands (Wharekauri in Māori; Rēkohu in the indigenous Moriori language) is a blue field with a map of the island in the centre, the Te Whanga...
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The Pyramid (Chatham Islands) (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
The Pyramid (Moriori: Tcharako; Māori: Te Tara Koi Koia; officially The Pyramid (Tarakoikoia)) is a small island south of Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands...
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Forty-Fours (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
(31 mi) east of the main Chatham Island. They are called Motchuhar in Moriori and Motuhara in Māori. The group includes the easternmost point of New...
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Hirawanu Tapu (category Moriori people)
Zealand Moriori leader. He was born in Te Awapatiki, Chatham Islands, New Zealand. He was a major source for Alexander Shand's works on Moriori history...
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List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
has been some interest in reviving Tutelo in the 21st century. The Moriori language went extinct in 1898 but revival efforts have been ongoing since 2001...
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(1980). Maori Dunedin. Dunedin: Otago Heritage Books. Clark, Ross (1994). "Moriori and Māori: The Linguistic Evidence". In Sutton, Douglas G. (ed.). The Origins...
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New Zealand place names (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
and Kareponia settlements represent Māori-language approximations of London, Athens and California. Moriori, descendants of Māori, migrated to the Chatham...
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Māori people (category Articles containing Hawaiian-language text)
descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Early contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century...
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(Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi), also called the giant Chatham Island rail or in Moriori as mehonui, is an extinct species of flightless rail. It was endemic to...
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pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...
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Mangere Island (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
Mangere Island (Moriori: Maung’ Rē) is part of the Chatham Islands archipelago, located about 800 kilometres (500 mi) east of New Zealand's South Island...
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denote a long A. Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian...
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