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PAPAKUPU O TE TAITOKERAU |
| TAI
TOKERAU DICTIONARY |
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on this dictionary was begun in 1997 by the James Henare Māori Research Centre of the University of Auckland, with the assistance of a grant from
the Environment and Heritage Committee of the New Zealand Lottery Grants
Board. Extensive fieldwork was conducted in Tai Tokerau, and meetings of
contributors and advisors were held regularly in Auckland and Northland
from 1997 to 1999. Almost 200 people were directly involved during this
time. This phase of the work was supported with further grants from Te Puni
Kokiri and the University of Auckland. A huge amount of information
was collected, and the next few years were spent transferring these
data from written records and tapes into a database. |
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Dictionary-making,
if it is to be done properly, is a very time-consuming process. The Centre could not
allow the Tai Tokerau Dictionary to be a hurried, sloppy job. At the same
time, people were naturally very impatient to see some results from their
work. Fortunately, the World Wide Web gave the Centre the opportunity to let people
have access to work in progress without having to wait until everything
was edited and ready for publication. |
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Formal work on the dictionary ceased with the Centre's going into recess at the beginning of 2004. However the work has continued informally since then coordinated by Dr Richard Benton, who was appointed general editor of the dictionary in 1999, and was Director of the Centre from 2000-2003. These
web pages contain the latest printouts from the dictionary databases. They
are replaced by updated versions as more new entries are added and existing
ones edited. Please remember that all of this material still requires extensive
editing, that there are still many entries to be added to each file, and work on the dictionary is proceeding on a voluntary basis.
Right now, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any of the material in these
files. Your comments, questions and suggestions,
including new items which should be added or looked for, would be welcome (see address below). |
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If
this is the first time that you have looked at this dictionary, please
take the time to read these introductory files: |
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| NGA
KUPU KÖRERO, NGA PATAI HOKI |
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You can send us any comments, questions, suggestions, or new material for inclusion
in the dictionary by email to kupu at temarareo.org |
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