About Maori Language | Maori | Alphabets in Maori

Countries

New Zealand

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

New Zealand

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Australia, Oceania

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Māori Language Commission

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.

Similar To

Tahitian Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 2 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 2 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 1 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks

Rank: 6 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Thank You

Mauruuru koutou

How Are You?

E pēhea ana koe ?

Good Night

Night pai

Good Evening

pai ahiahi

Good Afternoon

Afternoon pai

Good Morning

Morning pai

Please

Tēnā

Sorry

Aroha mai

Bye

poroporoaki

I Love You

Aroha ahau ki a koe

Excuse Me

tukua ahau

Dialects

Dialect 1

South Island Māori

Where They Speak

New Zealand

How Many People Speak

150,000.00

Rank: 74 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Western North Island Maori

Where They Speak

New Zealand

How Many People Speak

150,000.00

Rank: 77 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Eastern North Island Maori

Where They Speak

New Zealand

How Many People Speak

150,000.00

Rank: 63 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.18 million

Rank: 91 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.01 %

Rank: 62 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

0.18 million

Rank: 86 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

0.10 million

Rank: 66 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

te Reo Māori

Alternative Names

New Zealand Maori

French Name

maori

German Name

Maori-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈmaɔɾi]

Ethnicity

Māori people

History

Origin

1814

Language Family

Austronesian Family

Subgroup

Polynesian

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Maori

Language Position

Rank: 24 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Maori Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mri

ISO 639 2/B

mao

ISO 639 3

mri

ISO 639 6

mri

Glottocode

maor1246

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

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.