Form with which the secretary of a corporation notifies all necessary parties of the date, time, and place of a special meeting of stockholders.
Macrons For Te Reo In Wake
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Multi-State
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Wake
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US-0017-CR
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The modern Māori alphabet has 15 letters. The five vowels have both short and long forms, with the long forms denoted by macrons marked above them. The Te Reo Māori alphabet is: A, E, H, I, K, M, N, O, P, R, T, U, W, NG, WH. There are 5 vowels: A, E, I, O, U.
Typing a macron on a computer To type a macron with the Māori keyboard, press the tilde key (~) then type a vowel. This works for both Windows and Mac computers. For Mac users, you can also hold down the Alt/Option key and type the vowel.
Mana whenua Loosely translates as people of the land, local people, people born of the land, people living on their ancestors' land, Indigenous people. Māori are known as the tangata whenua in Aotearoa. We may use this term to refer to Māori in a general/ inclusive way.
We can: get Māori words right, ensuring we spell them correctly. use macrons or double vowels to lengthen vowels. use apostrophes with care when writing Māori words. avoid adding an 's' to Māori words to show plurals. consider whether a transliteration is the most culturally appropriate choice. respect dialectal differences.
The advice of Te Taura Whiri is to use macrons for all words except where the double vowels form part of a personal, family, hapū or iwi name and the 'owner' has a preference for that spelling. “Some older Māori are much more sparing in their use of macrons or do not use them at all.
The importance of tohutō (macrons) in reo Māori A macron is a line that appears over Māori vowels, such as a, e, i, o, u. Why is it really important? It means that you can lengthen the vowel sound. The other reason is you can change the meaning of the word entirely.
For example, to get an ā: Switch your keyboard to US Extended. Type ⌥a+a (i.e. press and hold the option key, press a while still holding the option key) release the option key and the a key, then type a again.
The word 'Māori' has a capital when it refers to the people and the language, used as a noun or an adjective, for example: the Māori language. te reo Māori. Māori politicians.
If you know the Unicode for the character you want, press the code followed by Alt+X together, e.g. for Ā, type its four-digit Unicode, 0100, followed by Alt+X. You can find the Unicode for any character by using the Windows Character Map, which is good for all Windows applications.
Typing a macron on a computer To type a macron with the Māori keyboard, press the tilde key (~) then type a vowel. This works for both Windows and Mac computers. For Mac users, you can also hold down the Alt/Option key and type the vowel.
