Prime Minister Bill English later said he didn’t think New Zealanders would be offended by Mr Johnson’s comment. “A hongi is a fairly unfamiliar ritual to almost anyone else in the world ...

The King has shared a traditional greeting gesture with a Maori advocate at the official launch of his environmental charity. Charles, 76, shared a hongi – a traditional Maori greeting where two ...

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Borrowing from Maori into English began as soon as the first European explorers and settlers arrived in New Zealand and adopted the local words for many plants, animals and places – words like ...

When a teenage Te Ahu Rei was caught kissing at a powhiri, his great aunt gave him a public dressing down. Parihaka kuia Ena Okeroa didn't take kindly to seeing her mokopuna showing such a lack of ...

The hongi is a hugely significant gesture in Maori culture (Picture: Getty) A Maori man training with Ukrainian troops gave King Charles the traditional hongi greeting on Monday. The New Zealander ...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson joked on his visit to New Zealand on Monday that a traditional Maori greeting could be misinterpreted as a headbutt elsewhere.

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A New Zealand teenager's video complaining about people saying words in the Maori language wrong proves an online hit, with more than 155,000 views.

Boris Johnson compares Maori greeting to headbutt The Foreign Secretary is continuing his international tour in New Zealand where he is pushing for a post-Brexit trade deal.

The Maori language continues to exert an influence on New Zealand English, according to research by Professor Graeme Kennedy of Victoria University’s School of Linguistics and Applied Language ...