Publisher's Synopsis
Maori, the language of the Cook Islands, consists of a number of mutually intelligible dialects. This dictionary is concerned chiefly with the dialect of Rarotonga, the main island, but many words characteristic of other dialects are also identified.;Dictionary entries in their fullest form consist of a headword, some grammatical information about the headword, a gloss or glosses, illustrative sentence examples with English translations, idiomatic phrases and their meanings, and finally, some information about the derivation of the headword.
