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Cook Islands Māori Words & Phrases

The everyday reo — greetings, family, food, numbers, colours, the body, the months, and the sayings that refuse to translate word for word. 836 words and phrases across 35 categories below, every one from a spreadsheet in this folder (Vaareka Reo Maori.xlsx). Use the buttons to jump to a category, or search either language. Add a row and it appears here.

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A pile of dried coconut fronds beside a track

Source: Vaareka Reo Maori.xlsx — every sheet of each.
With python3 vaareka_web.py running, saving a row in Excel is the whole job: this page redraws itself within a few seconds, Vāareka learns the new row, and the offline copy of the page is rebuilt so it is current the next time you open it straight from Finder.
Opened as a file with no server, the page shows the snapshot above, and python3 build_phrases_page.py brings that up to date by hand.