About Chinese (Traditional) Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Chinese traditional is spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority. This language is spoken by 16% of the world’s population. About 1.3 billion people speak Chinese traditional. Some people consider both Chinese simplified and traditional as two different languages. There is a variety of Chinese languages that is investigated historically. Currently, there are around 13 main regional groups from middle Chinese who speak Mandarin. It is followed by Min that is spoken by 75 million people Shanghainese while Yue is spoken by 68 million Cantonese. The traditional script of Chinese is written in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. The Chinese language consists of tens of thousands of characters. Traditional Chinese is a little more complex as compared to simplified. Some characteristics of simplified are merged with traditional to form the number of characters.
About Maori Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Maori is the official language in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. The total number of Maori speakers is around 100,000 to 150,000. It has a distinctive nature as compared to other Polynesian languages. Maori contains five vowels and each one of them is either long or short. There are ten consonants in total that include h, k, m, n, ng, p, r, t, and w. You will rarely find any prefixes and suffixes while the nouns, verbs, and tenses are indicated with syntax. Traditionally Maori didn’t have a fixed writing system but it is now written in Latin script. The modern text of Maori features long and short vowels. A lot of older texts are based on long vowels and double letters.
