Countries
New Zealand
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
New Zealand
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Tahitian Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2048
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Mauruuru koutou
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Night pai
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
pai ahiahi
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Morning pai
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Tēnā
कृपया
Sorry
Aroha mai
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
poroporoaki
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
tukua ahau
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Doteli
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Nepal
How Many People Speak
150,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
New Zealand
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
150,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Nepal
How Many People Speak
150,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.18 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.18 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.10 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
te Reo Māori
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
maori
népalais
German Name
Maori-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈmaɔɾi]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Māori people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1814
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Polynesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Maori
Nepali
Language Position
2659
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maori Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mi
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mri
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mao
nep
ISO 639 3
mri
npi
ISO 639 6
mri
nep
Glottocode
maor1246
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative