iPhone app Te Aka Māori Dictionary

Te Aka is a Mori language dictionary that is easy to use by searching for Mori or English words.
It includes the ability to filter search results, and to save definitions to a Favourites list.
There are currently over 24,000 Mori headword entries in the database, which is being added to over time.
An offline dictionary has also been included when internet connectivity is not available.

As well as English meanings, it has example sentences with translations for many entries.
It even has photographs and audio clips for Aotearoa/New Zealand native fauna and photographs of flora, important people and other items where a photograph will aid understanding.

In addition to the words one would expect in a traditional dictionary, it also has encyclopaedic entries designed to provide key information about plants, animals, stars, planets, heavenly bodies, important Mori people, key ancestors of traditional narratives, tribal groups, ancestral canoes, song types, musical instruments, Mori names for institutions, country names, place names and other proper names.
There are also detailed explanations of key concepts central to Mori culture.
Comprehensive explanations for grammatical items are included, with examples of usage, as are idioms and colloquialisms with their meanings and examples.

The Te Aka Maori app is the companion to the popular www.maoridictionary.co.nz website and forms part of the Te Whanake Mori Language learning series.,

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