Māori Example and Resource Link

I tētahi rā, ka haere a Tāwhaki rāua ko tana taina ko Karihi ki te toro i to rāua tuahine i a Pūpūmai. I wehe atu ia i tō rātou kāinga, ka noho kē mai i Te Puke-ki-Tauranga. I te kitenga atu o Pūpūmai i ōna tūngāne e haere mai ana ka mōhio tonu ia he kaupapa nui ta rāua i haere mai ai.

From: Tāwhaki-nui-a-Hema, a book of Māori legends.

The example above was kindly provided by Suzanne Doig of New Zealand. Dr. Doig maintains a website with many useful links. Her links page contains a section on resources for the Māori language including an on-line dictionary, links to pages in Māori, as well as links to tribal homepages.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4038/nz.htm#Maori

The current method used in Māori webpages is to present the text with umlauts (diaereses) in the place of macrons. Special fonts are available with vowel/macron combinations mapped to vowel/diaeresis code points so that the pages may be viewed correctly.

Changing the browser's encoding to "Baltic" should also work, with the exception of the letter "k" with macron below.