Friday, 5 September 2008

The dictionary is the culmination of seven years work from a team of dedicated writers.

He Pātaka Kupu is 1,200 pages and has 24,000 entries which include synonyms, tribal variants and some of the more recent developments in Māori language.

He Pātaka Kupu is one of the largest monolingual dictionaries ever to be published in the Pacific, and is the largest of its size and genre to be published in New Zealand.

The publication of He Pātaka Kupu is a significant landmark in the history of Māori language. It is the largest reference book in Māori and captures the work of Māori language experts to reflect our country’s indigenous language both from the historical and contemporary worlds.

View the factsheet here.

Last modified: 29/08/2008