Robin Patterson
Articles I started or plan to start soon
Kia ora! Titiro The best place to get a message to me: w:User:Robin Patterson
Titiro hoki:
- http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers - Wikipedia Maori
- http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/ngata/ - the Ngata Dictionary
- http://mi.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges - Wikibooks, where spam is rife
For this project, the following pages of the English Wiktionary will be useful guides:
Even the 100 commonest words could be worth covering early. Here's the English Wiktionary category with links to the top 100 in alpha order. Here are the top 20 in frequency order: the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it, he, for, was, on, are, as, with, his, they, at. HOWEVER, there will not be a direct relationship between the 100 commonest words in English and the 100 commonest in Maori. I'd be pleased to read of any studies that produce frequency figures for Maori words.
And we should make our own equivalents (or a Maori-language alternative in each case):