• 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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    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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    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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    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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    Karaka (tree) (category Articles containing Moriori-language text)
    fruit. In the Chatham Islands, it is called kōpī, its name in the Moriori language. It is naturalised and considered invasive in Hawaii. Karaka is a leafy...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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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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    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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    (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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    (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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    Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
    however, a small group of prominent anthropologists proposed that the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands represented a pre-Māori group of people from...
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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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    Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...
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    The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...
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