ISO 639-3 · mrimri
Austronesian family
Māori
te reo Māori
Māori is a language of the Tahitic branch (Austronesian), spoken in New Zealand. Wikidata counts about 213,849 speakers (2023). Wikidata describes it as “Polynesian language spoken in New Zealand”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
mri- ISO 639-1
mi- Glottocode
maor1246- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- -42.00, 173.00
- Wikipedia
- 128 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
3scripts
11levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Māori · te reo Māori |
|---|---|
| Also called | Māori language, Maori, Maori language, te reo Māori, reo Māori |
| All speakers | 213,849 (2023) |
| Written in | Māori writing system, Māori Braille, Latin script |
| Official in | New Zealand |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Māori
The branches above Māori, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch634Nuclear Malayo-Polynesianbranch579Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch470Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch438Oceanicbranch220Central–Eastern Oceanicbranch44Central Pacificbranch38Polynesianbranch36Nuclear Polynesianbranch9TahiticbranchmriMāorilanguage
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in New Zealand
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalsmoSamoanAustronesian · 415,7201 · NationaltonTonganAustronesian · 186,0101 · NationalglaScottish GaelicIndo-European · 57,0002 · ProvincialnzsNew Zealand Sign Languageunclassified · 20,2006b · ThreatenedtklTokelauanAustronesian · 3,3006b · ThreatenedpihPitcairn-Norfolkunclassified · 5326a · Vigorous