To amuse myself, I entered the Maori text of Hatupatu and the Birdwoman into (onto?) an Excel spreadsheet - one sentence per cell. A couple of sentences were repeated, so I only entered them once. A couple of the longer sentences could be cut in two.
I next arranged the sentences in order of 'comfort'. Those I could easily read went to the top. Those that I'm not yet ready to tackle went to the bottom.
There are just over 80 sentences in total. The easiest?
Kotari te manu i te ora.
The hardest?
Engari i uru he kuruaho ki ona whatu, ka tutuki, ka hinga, papahoro ana, ki roto i te wai-paru korohu.
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