Media: Argument over pronunciation of Maori place name
| Submitter: |
Brent Woo
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| Submitter Email: | bwoo@linguistlist.org |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Sociolinguistics |
| Subject Language(s): |
Maori
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| Media Body: |
Residents of Whangarei, the northernmost city in New Zealand, are feverishly discussing how to pronounce their city's name. Due to dialectal, regional, historical, and personal variation the Maori word is variously pronounced with an initial consonant [w], [hw], or [f]. Read more: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/whangarei- leader/6749577/Whats-in-a-name |
| Issue Number: | 23.1900 |
| Date Posted: | April 16, 2012 |
