Māori
Polynesian language spoken in New Zealand
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Summary
Māori is a natural language[1]. Māori ranks in the top 7% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,150 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: New Zealand[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4], academic discipline[5]
- Subclass of: Tahitic[6], Mātauranga Māori[7]
- Writing system: Māori writing system[8], Māori Braille[9], Latin script[10]
- Part of: Māori linguistics and languages[11], Māori culture, language and history[12]
- Commons category: Māori language[13]
- Wikimedia language code: mi[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Māori language[15]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=479[16]
- Language regulatory body: Māori Language Commission[17]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 160,000[18], 213,849[19]
- Native label: te reo Māori[20], te reo[21], Māori[22]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154036[23]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[24]
- Indigenous to: North Island[25]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MRI[26]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[27]
- Linguistic typology: isolating language[28], verb–subject–object[29]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Māori-language films[30]
- Related category: Category:Māori-language culture[31]
Why It Matters
Māori has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] Māori is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]
Māori has been cited as an influence by New Zealand English[34], a dialect[35], in New Zealand[36].
FAQs
Who did Māori influence?
Māori has been cited as an influence by New Zealand English[34].