@Merrybot

The description says: “This font is for Māori”.

The text in the sample is disconnected phrases. Some of it’s translatable: “How are you? ⏎ Tumeke ⏎ Rangiora ⏎ Good bye ⏎ Tūī”.

@Merrybot

Oh, and “tūātea” means: The breaking of the waves.

Āna. E whakamāoritia kino rawa ana tuhinga Pākehā e kaiwhakamāori tuihono.

Yeah. Online translators do a very bad job at translating Māori from English.

@Merrybot — I forgot that bit.

@Merrybot

Yeah same. I can see where it gets: “His” from, because in this case “his text” would be: “…āna tuhinga…”. But the reason that the word: “ana” is before “tuhinga” here is for grammar. I don’t know how it got “serious terms”. And the reason that it says: “by online translators” at the end instead of at the start is that Māori seems to prefer a passive sentence structure.

“Kīanga” means: “phrase”.

@Merrybot

It’s nice to see you taking an interest in my country’s language.

@Merrybot

Well who else’s language would it be? ;)

Žē. Zdedž ze nai me zdien ngiu. Neng ze zdien me ngā gau. Zdedž ze de me znam bai gvīz žīng žgāv. Neng ze de gzen me ban gzen eng gež.

Cool! I have my own language. It’s called: “Ngako”. It has very few letters. Above is a Romanisation of its translation of this English text.

I would be interested to see how yours turns out.

https://www.parallax.net.nz/programmes/ngako/

@Merrybot

I see what you’re doing there: Reversing the words with phonetic-substitute letters.

@Hensley Dodson (Hensilly)

Cool! I can’t wait to see more about it.