About Icelandic Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Icelandic is the official North Germanic language. It is spoken by over 314,000 people in the world. Most of the native speakers are living in Iceland where it is considered the national language. However, this language is a little more conservative as compared to other German languages. This language features western Norwegian dialects. Even the four cases synthetic grammar is also unique. Surprisingly, the written form of this language is not changed much since the 13 century. Icelandic is also quite similar to Faroese especially the written form. It remains distinctive when compared with English and German. Apart from the native speakers in Iceland, this language is also popular in Denmark. Icelandic is spoken by 8000 people in Denmark and around 1400 in Canada.
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.
