Pongo

Ka mahia te ingoa pūtaiao Pongo^[1] mō tētahi puninga whakangote. Ko te ingoa noa ko tuahuru.^[2] He huruhuru me kura tona tinana. Kei te noho waenga ngā rākau i ngā ngahere o ngā motu Humatora me Poroneo ā-Āhia-ki-te-tonga-mā-rāwhiti.

Ka ingoatia mawas i ngā motu Humatora me Poroneo, ka ingoatia maias i te whenua Harawaka i te motu Poroneo.^[3] Ka ingoatia hoki me te kupu orangutan mai te reo Marāiu: he aro te kupu orang ki te "tangata"; he ōrite te kupu "utan" me te kupu uta i te reo Māori, e aro ki te "ngahere".^[4]

Ngā tohutoro

↑ C. P. Groves (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press. Ng. wh. 183–184. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
↑ Tuahuru Te Aka Māori Dictionary
↑ June Mary Rubis (Hune 2020). "The orang utan is not an indigenous name: knowing and naming the maias as a decolonizing epistemology". Cultural Studies. 34 (5): 811–30. doi:10.1080/09502386.2020.1780281.
↑ Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel (2020). "*quCaN scrub-land, bush". The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

[1] C. P. Groves (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press. Ng. wh. 183–184. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.

[2] Tuahuru Te Aka Māori Dictionary

[3] June Mary Rubis (Hune 2020). "The orang utan is not an indigenous name: knowing and naming the maias as a decolonizing epistemology". Cultural Studies. 34 (5): 811–30. doi:10.1080/09502386.2020.1780281.

[4] Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel (2020). "*quCaN scrub-land, bush". The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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