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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 8 23 April 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't really know much about Maori, can someone tell me about it?
Edit by mrhenrik: moved to Specific Languages. Edited by mrhenrik on 10 August 2010 at 1:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Euphorion Hexaglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5344 days ago 106 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Czech, EnglishC2, GermanC1, SpanishC2, French | Message 2 of 8 03 June 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a good article: Maori language
Of course it's wikipedia ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5310 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 3 of 8 10 August 2010 at 10:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Maori is a polynesian language, which pwerhaps are the easiest languages in the world.
If you want to learn a language just for fun and without hard work, these languages are perhaps the right choise. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5384 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 4 of 8 12 August 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged | ||
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This is interesting, Aquila. What makes Polynesian languages so easy? I must admit I know little about them.
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| dinguino Nonaglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4758 days ago 55 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English, German*, FrenchC1, Catalan, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Turkish, Russian, Irish | Message 6 of 8 20 February 2014 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | ||
I would not say so. Polynesian languages are very exotic to European ears, in terms of vocabulary as well as grammar. Many of them have very few letters - you might know of the Hawaiian (?) alphabet which consists of not more than 13 phonems. With 13 phonems imagine all the possible mistakes and the confusion, as all the words seem to sound the same, in case you are not used to hearing it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4672 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 7 of 8 21 February 2014 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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The problem with Maori is similar to the Irish one: not even native population can speak it (except for a handful of words). In New Zealand, knowing Mandarin or Japanese is more helpful than knowing Maori, when it comes to business opportunities. The role of Maori in NZ is purely symbolic, unfortunately. It's not seen as essential to the Kiwi culture (unlike Welsh in Wales or Guarani in Paraguay). Edited by Medulin on 21 February 2014 at 6:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stolan Senior Member United States Joined 4036 days ago 274 posts - 368 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Thai, Lowland Scots Studies: Arabic (classical), Cantonese | Message 8 of 8 23 February 2014 at 6:06am | IP Logged | ||
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To Aquila.
Modernly spoken Austronesian languages are quite straightforward due to the history of those peoples. Subjugation of other people during their migrations and such. The lack of phonemes is interesting, but I also think their ease also comes from modern day simplification, the less written (like Marshallese) the more irregular and specific the grammar is. To Medulin. Many kids relearning their ancestral language simplify it greatly to add. Modern Greenlandic is that for the same reason, numerous vowel lengthening and consonant change rules, grammatical indication, and different plurality suffixes are generalized into one declination, and the dual number has died off in some dialects too. Example: http://books.google.com/books?id=pWw6AAAAQBAJ&printsec=front cover#v=onepage&q&f=false check out page 176 for what I mean. Edited by Stolan on 23 February 2014 at 6:11am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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