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‖ tangata|ˈtaŋata|
[Maori: see kanaka.]
a. In Maori parlance, a person, a human being.
b. tangata whenua |fɛˈnʊa|, lit. ‘people of the land’, local people (e.g. as opp. to nga manuhiri the visitors).
1840W. Deans Let. 30 Oct. in J. Deans Pioneers of Canterbury (1939) 29 He says they will take no other white man with them and they all want me to go and live there, calling me the tangata Widerup or the proprietor of it. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) i. v. 65 The Maori people who were in occupation of New Zealand at the time of European contact were the descendants of the intermixture of three successive groups of immigrants: the moa-hunters and the early tangata whenua [etc.]. 1974N.Z. Listener 20 July 13/1 The body was lying in state on the stage at the end of the hall and the tangata whenua were seated. 1974[see moa-hunter]. |