Te Reo Māori Translation Services

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the statutes giving the partnership administrative force set the bilingual obligation in Aotearoa. Our linguists translate Cabinet papers and bilingual ministerial notices. The Māori version has to state the meaning set out by the Crown in the English original, because a claimant may dispute the governing text once the two versions diverge. Parity of legal effect therefore ranks above style in our edit. Our reviewers compare version against version and return a list of the differences to the drafting team. The Waitangi Tribunal, constituted under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, gave the Māori text primacy in its 1986 report on te reo.

Departments in Wellington commission bilingual notices and public information from us, together with the consultation material issued alongside co-governance proposals. Our Sāmoan translation services handle comparable treaty-adjacent documents for drafting teams elsewhere in the region. Macron verification closes the Māori file. The printer receives te reo text already checked against the Te Taura Whiri word list. Our legislative material service prepares the te reo titles used in the statute book.

At the join of customary law and statute, a term can mean two things at once. Our linguists translate tikanga-based dispute procedures and the definitions printed in plain-English summaries of new legislation. A word with a customary sense at odds with its statutory sense goes to the ministry reviewer under a note. The note names the conflict and cites the clause at issue. The Māori Language Act 1987 gave a party the right to speak te reo in legal proceedings. Our court interpretation and judicial transcription service supports that right in Te Kooti Whenua Māori.

Outside the capital, iwi entities and council units draw on one bilingual archive with the Crown research bodies. A gap between two translations of a clause invites a challenge from the disadvantaged party. Huri maintains a terminology base per client, updated as a ministry adopts new wording. A phrase approved in the first document survives into the next. Procurement officers audit that consistency at contract renewal. The tenure vocabulary common to those documents comes out of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.

The bilingual education system of Aotearoa produces assessment text in two versions. Our linguists translate NCEA achievement standards and the marking schedules used by examiners. Our editors then compare the te reo paper against the English question by question, since a candidate must not face a harder task through a translator’s choice. An examination heavier in te reo has stopped matching its English counterpart. The Education and Training Act 2020 obliges a school to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. NZQA moderates the Māori-medium papers against Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.

Schools and kura across Auckland commission educational materials from Kōhanga Reo readers through to senior science modules. Our Tahitian translation services prepare immersion resources for Reo Tahiti classrooms at equivalent age levels. The two teams apply one macron-checking routine. A pupil moving between the languages finds consistent orthography across the two sets of workbooks. Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust has operated the immersion preschools since 1982. Our cultural education titles enter the sequence above that level.

Kaiako need the source material as much as their pupils do. Huri translates professional training manuals and the moderation guides used in bilingual delivery, including subjects a teacher first studied in English. Technical vocabulary in mathematics and digital technologies keeps its defined sense inside natural te reo instruction. A unit glossary ships with the manual and lists the te reo form for the technical concepts in the unit. Te Aho Matua, the founding philosophy of kura kaupapa Māori, has been named in statute since 1999.

University departments form a third client group. They commission bilingual thesis abstracts and grant narratives. A Mātauranga Māori method has to stay legible to a non-Māori assessment panel. Our linguists translate that method without flattening the indigenous concept into an approximate English noun. The te reo term survives into the abstract, with an English gloss beside it at first mention. Our research publication service handles the te reo abstracts filed with a university library.

Patients open health text under pressure. A mistranslated dosage line or consent clause does measurable harm. Huri translates Medsafe leaflets and the patient-information sheets issued by district health providers. The te reo instruction states the dose and the timing printed in the English. Our clinical files take two native-speaker reviews, because a misplaced negative inverts a medicine note. The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 places Te Tiriti obligations on Health New Zealand, Te Whatu Ora. Medsafe approves consumer medicine information under the Medicines Act 1981.

Māori families in Honolulu and around the Pacific rim live a long way from a te reo speaking clinician. Huri prepares mental health resources for the providers serving them. Our Tongan translation services supply parallel wellbeing material to the neighbouring Polynesian communities in that city. The tapu and noa distinctions stay in the te reo text, since those distinctions govern how a sensitive directive may be phrased at all. The Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights 1996 gives a patient the right to information in a form they can act on.

Civil-defence teams commission psychological first aid scripts and post-event wellbeing notices. Our drafters keep the te reo plain enough for a distressed person to act on immediately. The vocabulary of grief and recovery in te reo diverges from clinical English at the root. Our writers therefore compose the notice in te reo idiom and check it against the English afterwards. Regional groups constituted under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 commission our early warning scripts as well.

Equity surveys fail once a question asks two different things across the two languages, because the data then splits along a translation artefact. Our linguists cognitive-test the te reo items with native speakers during instrument design. A respondent restates the item in their own words. The researcher compares that restatement against the intended construct. Huri returns the tested set with a note on the wording changed. Our linguists check item wording against Te Kupenga, the Stats NZ survey of Māori wellbeing.

Safety ranks above service in aviation text. Huri translates safety instruction cards and cabin announcements, together with the te reo wayfinding installed in terminals. Because a passenger absorbs the wording at a glance, our editors reduce the te reo sentence to a subject and a verb. The macronised vowel set stays the recurring hazard, since a dropped macron produces a different word. Under the Civil Aviation Act 2023, the operator duty behind those cards continues from the 1990 statute it replaced.

Carriers flying through Auckland commission bilingual passenger services material, including loyalty-programme notices and digital check-in screens. Our Fijian translation services take the connecting leg for travellers changing aircraft mid-journey. Huri fixes an approved spelling per term at intake and keeps it across the whole passenger sequence. The wording on the check-in screen then matches the gate signage and the cabin announcement. Our flight operations glossary supplies the te reo terms used at the gate.

Huri also translates the public summaries drawn from air traffic control procedure, along with the bilingual notices explaining disruption and rescheduling. Ambiguity in those notices sends passengers to the service counter for a second explanation. Our editors therefore fix the te reo phrasing against the operator’s English text and log the result in the account glossary. Ground staff receive that glossary alongside the notice itself. ICAO retains English as the language of controller instruction. Our te reo assignments therefore stop at the public-facing notice.

Cabin-crew manuals and emergency-procedure cards need a te reo version legible to a new hire at once. Our drafters write these in plain operational te reo and test the wording with native-speaker crew. The terminology locks at sign-off. A refresher edition issued three years later uses the wording of the original manual. Carriers send these manuals to our aviation training service.

An exclusion clause translated loosely becomes a dispute at claim time. Huri translates policy schedules and the disclosure documents issued by insurers to whānau and marae trusts. The te reo wording produces the legal effect of the English, down to the definition of the insured party. A definition drifting by a word narrows the insured group. The Fair Trading Act 1986 bars misleading conduct in the te reo version as much as in the English.

Regional insurers coordinating through Suva commission underwriting documentation from us. Risk wording states equal exposure in te reo and in English, with no softening at the edges. Our Hawaiian translation services handle the Pacific-rim property equivalent for Native Hawaiian policyholders. Clauses go back against the master wording at proof stage, since an endorsement loosened in translation widens an unpriced liability for the underwriter. The Natural Hazards Insurance Act 2023 replaced the Earthquake Commission Act 1993 and governs the residential natural-hazard component behind those schedules.

There is a plain-language duty on the Māori version as much as on the English. Huri translates the regulatory compliance notices and complaints procedures published by insurers under fair-conduct rules. A te reo speaker can then lodge a claim on equal footing with an English speaker. Our drafters write the te reo to an agreed readability target and record the score in the file. Since 2022, the Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Act has obliged an insurer to maintain a fair conduct programme. Our claims processing glossary lists the te reo equivalents.

Marae and iwi asset holders form a client segment of their own. Communal property and customary tenure produce wording outside the standard policy template. Huri translates the bespoke endorsements drafted by brokers for these arrangements. Our linguists keep the customary tenure terms intact and leave the approximate English equivalents out of the endorsement. Trustees receive a term list with the policy, including the te reo wording adopted for the whenua entry. Te Kooti Whenua Māori approves the trust deeds defining the entities named in the schedule.

Huri translates and adapts content production material for bilingual programming, including subtitle files and presenter notes marking pronunciation and stress. Timing governs a broadcast line as much as meaning does. Drafting to picture, a translator counts syllables and keeps the sense inside the shot length. Our studio notes go to the presenter with the script. Te Māngai Pāho has funded te reo programming since 1993. Whakaata Māori broadcasts under the Māori Television Service Act 2003.

Producers based in Wellington commission these adaptations for documentary and children’s series, at different levels of formality. Our Cook Islands Māori translation services handle broadcast localisation for the closely related language of Rarotonga. Huri keeps a per-series glossary of proper nouns and place names. Episode twelve therefore spells and stresses a character name as episode one did. Our audio-visual adaptation team times the subtitle file to the broadcaster’s delivery specification.

Rural communities take much of their information by voice. Huri translates extension and rural radio scripts on biosecurity alerts and planting advice. Because a presenter speaks the te reo version at sight, our drafters use short clauses and avoid long compounds. The script goes out with stress marked on the proper nouns. Iwi stations broadcast to their rohe under Te Whakaruruhau o Ngā Reo Irirangi Māori. Our biosecurity protocol glossary supplies the pest and pathogen names.

Community newsletters and marae notices draw on the terminology base built for the broadcast material. Public bodies post their te reo social text from that base as well. A spelling decision taken for a radio script therefore applies to the printed flyer and the website banner. Huri versions the glossary and records the date of the change. Our news and journalism service applies that base to press statements.

Retailers in Aotearoa publish bilingual product pages as standard practice. Huri translates marketing and sales material and packaging text for them. The te reo version has to persuade on its own terms. Our writers compose it as original text and check it against the English afterwards. Tone forms part of the specification agreed at intake. The Trade Marks Act 2002 sends a mark containing Māori text or imagery to a Māori advisory committee.

Firms expanding from Brisbane into the Aotearoa market commission launch text and trade documentation. Our Sāmoan translation services join those campaigns when a client also addresses Pacific communities across the Tasman. Huri keeps the brand lexicon constant in te reo and in English. Our reviewers audit that lexicon at the start of a release cycle. Our international trade documentation follows the tariff wording of the Closer Economic Relations agreement of 1983.

Coining a te reo form for a new technical concept starts with the speaker community. Many digital and engineering concepts have no agreed equivalent in te reo. Huri contributes to technical terminology development by proposing forms and testing them with native speakers. The reasoning behind a coinage goes to the client with the term list, in a written note for the client to cite in public. He Pātaka Kupu, the monolingual dictionary published by Te Taura Whiri in 2008, is the first source at drafting stage. A form failing speaker testing is withdrawn. Our linguists then propose a second.

Contracts and bilingual annual reports need a te reo version matching the English on figures and on dates. Huri logs the term decisions taken on an account. A translator joining the project in year three drafts from that log. The client receives the log with the final delivery. Our contracts and agreements service handles the bilingual execution clauses.

Many te reo speakers live across the Tasman. Huri translates settlement guides and community-service notices for Māori families in Sydney. The te reo version names the Australian department and the current form number. Our editors verify those names against the department’s published list at delivery. The Special Category Visa, subclass 444, governs the entitlements described in those guides for New Zealand citizens living in Australia.

Community organisations in Melbourne commission bilingual material for language classes and welfare programmes. Our Tongan translation services join those projects when an organiser addresses several Pacific communities at once. Te Puni Kōkiri and Te Mātāwai fund diaspora reo programmes under Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016. Huri draws the languages from a common glossary. A poster and a class handout therefore use identical wording. The organiser proofs one term list.

NGOs and iwi-led programmes gather field material in te reo and file their narrative reports with funders in English. Huri translates in the two directions and keeps the speaker’s own phrasing in the quoted passages. A flattened translation makes a productive programme look thin on paper. Our reviewers compare the English narrative against the te reo transcript line by line. Our humanitarian assistance service handles the acquittal narratives filed with the funder.

Huri maintains a second Reo Māori page for clients needing the authority-and-citability treatment. Our Reo Māori strategic localisation service advises on treaty obligation and orthographic standards for citation. The translation team and the consulting team draw on a shared terminology base. A file transfers between them without a fresh glossary negotiation. A client engaging one service inherits the term decisions logged by the other.

Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori treats the macron as a letter of the alphabet. Vowel length separates a word from its unmarked homograph. Our production chain keeps the Unicode characters intact through export and print proof. A proofreader logs the font substitutions dropping the mark and returns the file to the designer. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori adopted the macron over the doubled vowel. Huri follows that convention across the account.

Clients managing Pacific databases from Auckland need consistent output across content systems and third-party platforms. Our team checks the macron against the source file at export. Standard Māori uses no glottal stop. Our proofreaders strip the ʻokina introduced by a foreign keyboard. Our Reo Māori strategic localisation page documents these orthographic decisions for citation. Unicode assigns the marked vowels precomposed characters from U+0100 onward. A legacy export can substitute the bare vowel silently.

Huri executes a Non-Disclosure Agreement when a file changes hands. Access to sensitive cultural research is segmented by project. Client data stays inside controlled storage for the production lifecycle. Marae records and pre-release policy text fall under the confidentiality terms written into the contract. The Privacy Act 2020 governs the personal information inside those files.

Older documents were written without macrons. A client may ask for the original spelling to remain, or for the text to follow current standards. Huri takes the instruction at intake and records the decision in the file header. That note separates a deliberate historical spelling from an oversight. Diaspora records held in Salt Lake City archives arrive with the question unresolved. Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has published official place names with macrons under its 2008 statute.