Download or read book Contemporary Māori Words written by New Zealand. Māori Language Commission and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help promote Maori as a living language, this dictionary includes 5,500 new words developed by the Maori language commission since 1987, and 3,000 previously unpublished Maori equivalents for English terms. It covers vocabulary from a wide range of areas, including health, science, mathematics, administration, education, and recreation.