Maori have been labelled as thieves, bludgers and liars in entries posted on an online dictionary, which a new petition is calling to have removed. The petition urges urbandictionary.com to remove the ...

As part of efforts to preserve and promote the indigenous Māori language, the Te Aka Māori Dictionary app has expanded and technically upgraded to reach budding omniglots. The Te Murumāra Foundation ...

Deaf New Zealanders now have access to te reo vocabulary in the Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL), thanks to Victoria University’s Deaf Studies Research Unit. Dr Rachel McKee, ...

A Maori women has been left horrified after discovering a racist definition of the word 'bro' in the Oxford Dictionary. Julia Rahui was reading The Oxford New Zealand Dictionary: Words and their ...

The oldest Māori word in this new update is 'whenua' meaning ‘land or piece of land belonging to a Māori person or native land of a Māori group.’ The Oxford English Dictionary, recognised worldwide as ...