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Ngaꞌara, the Glossary

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Ngaꞌara The name Ngaꞌara has been variously spelled Gnaara, Gaara, Ngaara, Nga-Ara, Gahara, and Gobara. The letter g is a common convention in the Pacific for the ''ng''-sound, and Roussel, the one who transcribed the name as Gahara, frequently used h for glottal stop.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 17 relations: Alfred Métraux, Anakena, Ariki, Bishop Museum, Easter Island, Glottal stop, Hippolyte Roussel, Katherine Routledge, Mana (Oceanian cultures), Orongo, Oxford University Press, Rapa Nui language, Rongorongo, Rongorongo text C, Tangata manu, Tapa cloth, Voiced velar nasal.

  2. 19th-century monarchs in Oceania
  3. History of Easter Island
  4. Rapa Nui monarchs
  5. Rongorongo

Alfred Métraux

Alfred Métraux (5 November 1902 – 12 April 1963) was a Swiss and Argentine anthropologist, ethnologist and human rights leader.

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Anakena

Anakena is a white coral sand beach in Rapa Nui National Park on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean.

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Ariki

An ariki (New Zealand, Cook Islands), ꞌariki (Easter Island), aliki (Tokelau, Tuvalu), ali‘i (Samoa, Hawai‘i), ari'i (Society Islands, Tahiti), Rotuma) aiki or hakaiki (Marquesas Islands), akariki (Gambier Islands) or ‘eiki (Tonga) is or was a member of a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.

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Bishop Museum

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu.

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Easter Island

Easter Island (Isla de Pascua; Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Hippolyte Roussel

Hippolyte Roussel (22 March 1824 in La Ferté-Macé – 22 January 1898 in Gambier Islands) was a French priest and missionary to Polynesia, a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

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Katherine Routledge

Katherine Maria Routledge (11 August 1866 – 13 December 1935) was an English archaeologist and anthropologist who, in 1914, initiated and carried out much of the first true survey of Easter Island.

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Mana (Oceanian cultures)

In Melanesian and Polynesian cultures, mana is a supernatural force that permeates the universe.

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Orongo

Orongo (Oroŋo) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Rapa Nui language

Rapa Nui or Rapanui (Rapa Nui:, Spanish), also known as Pascuan or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family.

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Rongorongo

Rongorongo (Rapa Nui: roŋoroŋo) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that has the appearance of writing or proto-writing. Ngaꞌara and Rongorongo are history of Easter Island.

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Rongorongo text C

Text C of the rongorongo corpus, also known as Mamari, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo (Rapa Nui) texts.

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Tangata manu

The Tangata manu ("bird-man," from "human beings" + "bird") was the winner of a traditional ritual competition on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to collect the first sooty tern egg of the season from the nearby islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui, and climb the sea cliffs of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.

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Tapa cloth

Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii (where it is called kapa).

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Voiced velar nasal

The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek ἆγμα 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

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See also

19th-century monarchs in Oceania

History of Easter Island

Rapa Nui monarchs

Rongorongo

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaꞌara

Also known as King Nga'ara, Nga'ara, Paramount Chief Nga'ara.