Maorski jezik Kukovih Ostrva

Maorski jezik Kukovih jezika, poznat i kao Māori Kūki 'Āirani ili Rarotonganski, je službeni jezik Kukovih Ostrva. Većina otočana ga naziva Te reo Ipukarea, doslovno "jezik Domovine predaka".

Maorski jezik Kukovih Ostrva
Māori Kūki 'Āirani
Države	Kukova Ostrva
Regije	Kukova Ostrva, Novi Zeland
Broj govornika	42.669 (16.800 na Kukovim Ostrvima (vladin izvještaj iz 1979.))
Jezična porodica	Malajsko-polinezijski Oceanički Polinezijski Nuklearni polinezijski Istočni polinezijski Tahitički Maorski jezik Kukovih Ostrva
Službeni status
Službeni	Kukova Ostrva
Regulator	Kopapa Reo
Jezični kodovi
ISO 639-1	–
ISO 639-2	rar
ISO 639-3	– – inkluzivni kod Individualni kodovi: rar – Rarotonga dijalekt pnh – Tongareva dijalekt (Penhrhyn) rkh – Rakahanga-Manihiki dijalekt

Blizak je tahićanskom i novozelandskom maorskom, i govornici sva tri jezika se u mnogim situacijama mogu sporazumijevati.

Jezik regulira kopapa reo osnovan 2003.

Vanjske veze

• Te akataka reo Rarotonga; or, Rarotongan and English grammar by the Rev Aaron Buzacott of the London Missionary Society, Rarotonga. 1854. Old grammar in english and Rarotongan
• "Tuatua mai!" Learn Cook Islands Maori Arhivirano 2008-09-13 na Wayback Machine-u
• Te Reo Maori Act 2003
• SBS Cook Islands Maori Radio Program. Arhivirano 2006-08-29 na Wayback Machine-u Updated each week
• http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/dictionaries.asp
• http://www.cookislandsmaori.com/ Online version of Jasper Buse and Raututi Taringa Dictionary
• Cook Islands Ministry of Cultural Development Arhivirano 2006-11-07 na Wayback Machine-u
• Te Reo Māori Kūki 'Āirani i roto i te Kurakarāma o Aotearoa (Cook Islands Maori in the New Zealand Curriculum) Arhivirano 2007-09-27 na Wayback Machine-u
• Ethnologue on the languages of the Cook Islands
• Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands (c. 1883-1912) at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Rječnici, udžbenici i knjige na maorskom Kukovih Ostrva

• Cook Islands Maori Dictionary, by Jasper Buse with Raututi Taringa, edited by Bruce Biggs and Rangi Moeka'a, Auckland, 1995.
• A dictionary of the Maori Language of Rarotonga, Manuscript by Stephen Savage, Suva : IPS, USP in association with the of Education of the Cook Islands, 1983.
• Kai Korero : Cook Islands Maori Language Coursebook, Tai Carpentier and Clive Beaumont, Pasifika Press, 1995. (A useful learning Method with oral skills cassette)
• Cook Islands Cook Book by Taiora Matenga-Smith. Published by the Institute of Pacific Studies.
• Maori Lessons for the Cook Islands, by Taira Rere. Wellington, Islands Educational Division, Department of Education, 1960.
• Conversational Maori, Rarotongan Language, by Taira Rere. Rarotonga, Government Printer. 1961.
• Some Maori Lessons, by Taira Rere. Rarotonga. Curriculum Production Unit, Department of Education. 1976.
• More Maori Lessons, by Taira Rere. Suva, University of the South Pacific.1976
• Maori Spelling: Notes for Teachers, by Taira Rere. Rarotonga: Curriculum Production Unit, Education Department.1977.
• Traditions and Some Words of the Language of Danger or Pukapuka Island. Journal of the Polynesian Society 13:173-176.1904.
• Collection of Articles on Rarotonga Language, by Jasper Buse. London: University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. 1963.
• Manihikian Traditional Narratives: In English and Manihikian: Stories of the Cook Islands (Na fakahiti o Manihiki). Papatoetoe, New Zealand: Te Ropu Kahurangi.1988
• Te korero o Aitutaki, na te Are Korero o Aitutaki, Ministry of Culutral Development, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 1992
• Atiu nui Maruarua : E au tua ta'ito, Vainerere Tangatapoto et al. University of South Pacific, Suva 1984. (in Maori and English)
• Learning Rarotonga Maori, by Tongi Maki'uti, Ministry of Cultural Development, Rarotonga 1999.
• Te uri Reo Maori (translating in Maori), by Tongi Maki'uti Punanga o te reo. 1996.
• Atiu, e enua e tona iti tangata, te au tata tuatua Ngatupuna Kautai...(et al.), Suva, University of the South Pacific.1993. (Maori translation of Atiu : an island Community)
• A vocabulary of the Mangaian language by Christian, F. W. 1924. Bernice P. Bishop Bulletin 2. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
• E au tuatua ta'ito no Manihiki, Kauraka Kauraka, IPS, USP, Suva. 1987.