[citation needed] They are traditionally a religious people and although they are mostly a Christian culture now, the ꞌAre still place a large importance on the connection between ancestors and the land around them.
Burial grounds are viewed to be closely related both spiritually and in terms of "ancestral power".
The culture of the ꞌAreꞌare people is traditionally passed down orally through myths and other stories, which is why it has been difficult to keep record of all aspects of their beliefs and language.
However, steps have been taken by the Wairokai Translation Committee to establish a written standard that can later be implemented into the ꞌAreꞌare school curriculum.
The ꞌAreꞌare refer to musical instruments using the lexeme ꞌau, which has different meaning depending on the context used.
Since words within the ꞌAreꞌare language have such ambiguity it can often be difficult to translate the meaning completely accurately.
Minimal pairs to show the phonemic status of vowel length are presented below:[citation needed] Since ꞌAreꞌare lexical categories are not distinguished morphologically, the position of a word in a sentence is necessary to determine their function in a sentence.
[5] Verbs in the ꞌAreꞌare language do not show agreement with the subject and instead of using verbal inflection, preverbal particles are used to express tense.
[2] The following are the three categories that distinguish the difference between verbs: Research undertaken by Katerina Naitoro has shown that the ꞌAreꞌare language has a basic tense distinction between future and non-future.
In addition, active and stative verbal predicates will have the positive future is marked by the preverbal particle ka rao.
The ꞌAreꞌare language uses a range of personal, possessive and relative pronouns to reference both inanimate and animate objects.