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 (7,571 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]
- Part of: Māori linguistics and languages[10], Māori culture, language and history[11]
- Commons category: Māori language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: mi[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Māori language[14]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=479[15]
- Language regulatory body: Māori Language Commission[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 160,000[17], 213,849[18]
- Native label: te reo Māori[19], te reo[20], Māori[21]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[22]
- Indigenous to: North Island[23]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MRI[24]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[25]
- Linguistic typology: isolating language[26], verb–subject–object[27]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Māori-language films[28]
- Related category: Category:Māori-language culture[29]
Why It Matters
Māori has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Māori is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]
Māori has been cited as an influence by New Zealand English[32], a dialect[33], in New Zealand[34].
FAQs
Who did Māori influence?
Māori has been cited as an influence by New Zealand English[32].