Countries
New Zealand
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
New Zealand
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Tahitian Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Mauruuru koutou
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Night pai
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
pai ahiahi
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Morning pai
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Tēnā
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Aroha mai
  
آسف
  
Bye
poroporoaki
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
tukua ahau
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
New Zealand
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
New Zealand
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
New Zealand
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
0.18 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.18 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
te Reo Māori
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
maori
  
arabe
  
German Name
Maori-Sprache
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Māori people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1814
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Polynesian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Maori
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mi
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mri
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
mao
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
mri
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
maor1246
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic