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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

New Zealand

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

New Zealand

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Australia, Oceania

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Māori Language Commission

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
  • The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.

1.9 Similar To

Tahitian Language

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

20
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

10
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Hello

3.2 Thank You

Mauruuru koutou

3.3 How Are You?

E pēhea ana koe ?

3.4 Good Night

Night pai

3.5 Good Evening

pai ahiahi

3.6 Good Afternoon

Afternoon pai

3.7 Good Morning

Morning pai

3.8 Please

Tēnā

3.9 Sorry

Aroha mai

3.10 Bye

poroporoaki

3.11 I Love You

Aroha ahau ki a koe

3.12 Excuse Me

tukua ahau

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

South Island Māori

4.1.1 Where They Speak

New Zealand

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Western North Island Maori

4.2.1 Where They Speak

New Zealand

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Eastern North Island Maori

4.3.1 Where They Speak

New Zealand

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

0.18 million
Rank: 91 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

0.18 million
Rank: 86 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

te Reo Māori

5.3.3 Alternative Names

New Zealand Maori

5.3.4 French Name

maori

5.3.5 German Name

Maori-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Māori people

6 History

6.1 Origin

1814

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Polynesian

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Maori

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

mi

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

mri

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

mao

7.3 ISO 639 3

mri

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

maor1246

7.6 Linguasphere

No data Available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Maori

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Maori Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Maori Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Maori. Maori phonology gives Maori vowels and Maori consonants. There are 5 vowels and 10 consonants in Maori language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Maori is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Maori language is given in detail in this section.

All Maori countries

Want to explore all Maori countries? About Maori language serves you with all Maori Speaking Countries. Countries that use Maori as official language are called as Maori countries.

  • Countries that use Maori as their National Language are: New Zealand.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Maori as second language are: Maori is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Maori greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Maori Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Maori language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Maori language.Learn Maori greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Hello
  • Thank you: Mauruuru koutou
  • Good Morning: Morning pai
  • Good Evening: pai ahiahi
  • Good Afternoon: Afternoon pai

All Maori Language Codes

Get to know all Maori language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Maori Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.