About Italian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The Italian language is the official language of Italy. It is spoken by 66,000,000 people and most of the native speakers are living in Italy. Italian is also the official language of San Marino and Vatican City. If this isn’t enough it is also spoken in Switzerland. The pronunciation and sound are quite similar to Latin and Spanish while grammar is similar to other romance languages. You will notice a lot of nouns, adjectives, and other indefinite articles in it. Italian features 27 pronouns while the plurals and verbs are very formal. There are a lot of dialects of Italian that are inspired by different languages. Judeo-Italian (Italkian) was a popular dialect traditionally but it is nearly extinct now.
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.
