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About Maori Language

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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
New Zealand
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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Rank: 14 (Overall)
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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
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Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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10
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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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
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
4.2.1 Where They Speak
New Zealand
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
4.3.1 Where They Speak
New Zealand
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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0.18 million
Rank: 91 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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5.3 Native Speakers
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0.18 million
Rank: 86 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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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
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
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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.

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