I probably should have mentioned that "kia orana" is a greeting in Cook Islands Maori. Their language is closely related to NZ Maori, who say "kia ora". There is history of settlers from the Cook Islands colonising NZ so the lingual similarities are not surprising.
Cook Islanders are brought up as bilingual (alongside English) which keeps their language alive. We could do better here... when I was in primary school we learned only a little Maori. I can almost count to 10... Having said that there is actually a Maori-language immersion primary school a couple of km from my house. Cheers Dave > On Dec 3, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > > No envy or miserableness here... I should say that I thought that this was > going to be a photograph of a motor vehicle produced by certain Korean > automaker... > > Excellent spot for relaxation, Dave. > > On 12/2/2015 6:17, David Mann wrote: >> Yesterday we arrived back from an enjoyable week on Rarotonga which is the >> largest of the Cook Islands. >> >> Here's a photo to make you feel miserable :) >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/939/#peso >> >> Hope I didn't miss too much, I have 501 messages... >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
