Meaning of tohutō | Babel Free

Definitions

A macron in Maori.

Examples

“The class also wanted to get local businesses on board to change their signage to reflect the tohutō.”

“NZ Post chief customer officer Bryan Dobson said that they understand that tohutō in te reo Māori are an essential element of the Māori alphabet and were trying to make their system compatible.”

“The new billboard design will also feature a tohutō on the O of Ōmokoroa, following a successful campaign by Ōmokoroa Point School’s Room 10.”

“A new integrated Māori keyboard will help to increase the visibility and use of tohutō.”

“Tohutō denote long vowels when the original document has them. Keri wrote her letters to us on a typewriter, with no tohutō option, and sometimes added tohutō by hand, as with ‘He Hōhā’, sometimes not. When she typed ‘Ōkārito’, if she added a tohutō it was usually only to the ‘Ō’. Others also omit tohutō.”

CEFR level