Māori
Facts
- Language: Māori
- Alternate names: Maori
- Language code: mri
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, East Polynesian, Central Eastern Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 127,000
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script: Latin script.
More information:
Moriori dialect in Chatham Islands has no remaining speakers. Christian.
Increasingly New Zealand is referred to by the Māori name Aotearoa 'the long white cloud', though originally this referred only to the North Island of New Zealand.