1 Countries
1.1 Countries
New Zealand
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
New Zealand
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Tahitian Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
New Zealand
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.18 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.18 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
te Reo Māori
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Maori-Sprache
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Māori people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available