Scholarly Name Reference
'Great heaven' (Māori rangi 'sky, heavens' + nui 'great'), the sky father prised apart from the earth mother Papatūānuku by their children.
Scholarly reference for Ranginui
Ranginui
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual polynesian names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
RANGINUI
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Ranginui is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Ranginui
Because the name is already in Latin letters, the Unicode restoration does not add diacritics or change the script. Its value here is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the recovery of lost marks.
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How ranginui becomes Ranginui
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | r | → | R | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 05 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 07 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 08 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
Why Ranginui is classified as Tier-2
The Polynesian name Ranginui is attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode restoration is identical to ASCII, so no diacritic or script recovery is needed. It is catalogued as a single-tier Tier-2 name because the scholarly form carries no stress or length marks.
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