Countries
New Zealand
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
New Zealand
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
Similar To
Tahitian Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2028
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
210
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
您好
Thank You
Mauruuru koutou
谢谢
How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
你好吗？
Good Night
Night pai
晚安
Good Evening
pai ahiahi
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
下午好
Good Morning
Morning pai
早上好
Please
Tēnā
请
Sorry
Aroha mai
遗憾
Bye
poroporoaki
再见
I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
我爱你
Excuse Me
tukua ahau
原谅我
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
New Zealand
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
150,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Xiguan
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
150,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
150,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.18 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.18 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.10 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
te Reo Māori
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
maori
cantonais
German Name
Maori-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaɔɾi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Māori people
Han Chinese
Origin
1814
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Polynesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maori
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
261
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maori Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mri
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mao
yue
ISO 639 3
mri
No data available
ISO 639 6
mri
yue
Glottocode
maor1246
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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