Hawkes Bay Today
  • Hawke's Bay Today home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology

Locations

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Havelock North
  • Central Hawke's Bay
  • Tararua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Dannevirke
  • Gisborne

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Hawkes Bay Today

Te Uranga Waka bringing Kahungunu traditions and dialect to the fore

By Michael Cugley, Te Rito journalism cadet
NZ Herald·
25 May, 2022 03:58 AM4 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Te Uranga Waka founder Dr Joseph Te Rito with tutor Hiria Tūmoana. Photo / Supplied

Te Uranga Waka founder Dr Joseph Te Rito with tutor Hiria Tūmoana. Photo / Supplied

Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air

Click here for Māori translation

The Māori faculty at EIT is focusing on Kahungunu practices in ongoing efforts to foster and promote iwi customs and dialect.

Te Uranga Waka tutor Hīria Tūmoana (Ngāi Tūhoe) says people should listen to Radio Kahungunu where they will hear the voices of kaumātua and Kahungunu dialect.

Radio Kahungunu started broadcasting from EIT in the late 1980s.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Tūmoana says Te Uranga Waka has focused on growing the numbers of speakers on the orators' bench and the number of women who can karanga. She began teaching Kahungunu words and phrases such as, kai te (kei te), katau (matau), anikā (ānei), pakahiwi (pokohiwi), aua nei (ahau nei), kai te haere tō au (kei te haere tonu au).

"We were being fed the language all the time, not just te reo Māori but also the language of Rongomaiwahine and Kahungunu," says Parekura Rohe-Belmont (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rongomaiwahine), another Te Uranga Waka tutor.

"And not only from 9 to 5," she says.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Rohe-Belmont is a former EIT student and is now encouraging today's students to pursue the dialects of their respective iwi and whānau.

Parekura Rohe-Belmont is a former EIT student and is now encouraging today's students to pursue the dialects of their respective iwi and whānau. Photo / Supplied
Parekura Rohe-Belmont is a former EIT student and is now encouraging today's students to pursue the dialects of their respective iwi and whānau. Photo / Supplied

"I encourage students from other iwi to find and use the language of their tribes and homes. This isn't just a school, it is more the embodiment of a home."

The faculty was founded by Kahungunu academic Dr Joseph Te Rito who began the work to return iwi reo, old waiata, and traditions to Kahungunu.

Ko Te Uranga Waka o Te Aho a Māui tērā e whakapau kaha nei ki te whakaora tonu ai te reo me ngā tikanga ake o Ngāti Kahungunu.

Hai tā tētahi kaiwhakaako a Hīria Tūmoana (Ngāi Tūhoe), mēnā kai te whakarongo tonu te iwi ki te reo irirangi, me ngā kōrero kua hopukia a ngā tīpuna, ngā Kuia, Koroua i runga i ngā kōpae, kai reira te nuinga o te reo o Kahungunu.

Ko Te Uranga Waka te kāinga tuatahi o Te Reo Irirangi o Ngāti Kahungunu, ā, i whakatūria i ngā tau 1980s.

Hai tā Tūmoana, e aro pū ana a Te Uranga Waka ki te whanaketanga o ngā kaikōrero i runga i te paepae, ngā wahine karanga ērā āhuatanga katoa o te marae. I whai wāhi mai aia hai pouako ki te kura, ā, e tīmata ana aia ki te whakaako i ngā kupu kua oho mai nō Kahungunu ake, pēnei i te, kai te (kei te), katau (matau), anikā (ānei), pakahiwi (pokohiwi), aua nei (ahau nei), kai te haere tō au (kai te haere tonu au).

Hai tā tētahi kaiwhakaako anō a Parekura Rohe-Belmont (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rongomaiwahine) "Ko te mea waimarie o tērā wā, ka maringi noa te reo māori kātahi, engari te reo o Rongomaiwahine, te reo hoki o Kahungunu. Kaua mai i te iwa ki te rima."

E tīmata ana a Rohe-Belmont ki te kura nei i aia e 18 tonu tōna pakeke, hai tauira i te tuatahi. Ko āna mahi inaiānei kia akiaki te hunga nō ērā atu iwi kia whai i tō rātau ake reo.

"Ki te hunga nō iwi kē, e akiaki ana ahau ki a rātau ki te kimi, ki te whai i te reo ake, me ngā kupu o te kāinga. "Ehara tēnei i te kura noa iho, he kura kāinga."

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

He kura tēnei i whakahua mai i te moemoeā a Tākuta Hōhepa Te Rito (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rongomaiwahine), ko te moemoeā hai tā Hīria Tūmoana, kia whakahoki anō he reo ki te kāinga, kia whakahoki anō ngā waiata koroua, me ngā tikanga i runga i te marae ki a Ngāti Kahungunu.

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Hawkes Bay Today

Motorist dies after four crashes in 40 minutes in Hawke's Bay

Hawkes Bay Today

'We have you surrounded': Police stood down after Hawke's Bay stand-off, search continues

Premium
Hawkes Bay Today

Black Ferns: Tui pair on the big bird for matches in South Africa


Sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Motorist dies after four crashes in 40 minutes in Hawke's Bay
Hawkes Bay Today

Motorist dies after four crashes in 40 minutes in Hawke's Bay

Some roads remained blocked.

17 Jul 06:02 AM
'We have you surrounded': Police stood down after Hawke's Bay stand-off, search continues
Hawkes Bay Today

'We have you surrounded': Police stood down after Hawke's Bay stand-off, search continues

17 Jul 04:06 AM
Premium
Premium
Black Ferns: Tui pair on the big bird for matches in South Africa
Hawkes Bay Today

Black Ferns: Tui pair on the big bird for matches in South Africa

17 Jul 04:00 AM


Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky
Sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

06 Jul 09:47 PM
NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Hawke's Bay Today e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Hawke's Bay Today
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP