Countries
New Zealand
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
New Zealand
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Tahitian Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2023
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1014
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Kumno
Thank You
Mauruuru koutou
Khublei
How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Night pai
thia sukh
Good Evening
pai ahiahi
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
Morning pai
khublei
Please
Tēnā
Sngewbha
Sorry
Aroha mai
Map
Bye
poroporoaki
khublei
I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
tukua ahau
map a nga
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Bhoi
Where They Speak
New Zealand
-
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Nonglung
Where They Speak
New Zealand
-
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
New Zealand
-
How Many People Speak
150,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.18 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.18 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.10 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
te Reo Māori
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
maori
khasi
German Name
Maori-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaɔɾi]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Māori people
Khasi people
Origin
1814
1200 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Polynesian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Maori
Khasi
Language Position
2640
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maori Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mri
kha
ISO 639 2/B
mao
kha
ISO 639 3
mri
kha
ISO 639 6
mri
kha
Glottocode
maor1246
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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