Maori is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Maori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand, and is the southernmost member of the Austronesian language family, related to Cook Islands Maori, Tuamotuan, and Tahitian. The Maori Language Act 1987 gave it recognition as one of New Zealand's official languages; before European contact Maori had no written form, and its current Latin-script spelling was standardized by Northern Maori communities working with English Protestant clergy in the 19th century.
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ISO 639-3 Code Partially Attested
Speaker CountSpeakers who speak the language well or very well (2015); 186,000 report some knowledge (2018). Classification
Language Kind Official Status Connections
In Family
Source Maori language (Wikipedia)
Source Maori language (Wikipedia)
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Maori is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (with macrons).
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Source Wikipedia: MāoriLeadtier 3Quote, Lead
The Māori language is spoken to some extent by about a fifth of all Māori, representing three per cent of the total population.
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Source Maori language (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articleQuote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ; endonym: te reo Māori [tɛ ɾɛɔ ˈmaːɔɾi], 'the Māori language', also shortened to te reo) is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
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1. Glottolog: Maori (Glottolog languoid maor1246)
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2. Maori language (Wikipedia)
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mri
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As of 2015, 55% of Māori adults reported some knowledge of the language; of these, 64% use Māori at home and around 50,000 people can speak the language "well".
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Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ; endonym: te reo Māori [tɛ ɾɛɔ ˈmaːɔɾi], 'the Māori language', also shortened to te reo) is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
Official status, Maori entity page
The Maori Language Act 1987 gave it recognition as one of New Zealand's official languages; before European contact Maori had no written form, and its current Latin-script spelling was standardized by Northern Maori communities working with English Protestant clergy in the 19th century.
In Family: Malayo-Polynesian, Infobox: fam2
Malayo-Polynesian
In Family: Tahitic languages, Infobox, Language family
Tahitic
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