This week – Te Reo  Māori Language..

Here is another video clip to share with you.. Have a look at their Māori (concept) Sign Language.

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It is similar to the Kapa Haka pattern. What is Kapa Haka mean to you?

Kapa – line

Haka – dance

Kapa haka is the term for Māori performing arts and people express their heritage and cultural identity through songs and dances. Their performing arts are very similar to Fiji, Rarotonga, Hawaii and other Polynesian Islands.

In the Māori Sign Language, the signs are the concepts such as marae (meeting house), tangi (tears, weeping and funeral), Rotorua (sign for mud pool) and its the vocabulary. If you watch the video and there is a transcript of wordings for you to read both languages.

It is very important for many Deaf Māori people to reconnect their culture, whakapapa, the right signs in the Te Reo Māori (concepts) in the community, their iwi (largest social units in the New Zealand Māori society). The word ‘iwi’ mean people or nation rather using tribe or confederation of tribes.

Let enjoy watching the video.