About Kurdish (Kurmanji) Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Kurmanji (Kurdish) is popularly known as Northern Kurdish. It is the northern dialect of the Kurdish language. Kurdish is spoken in Southeast Turkey and Northwest Iran and Syria. Interestingly it is also popular for many non-Kurdish minorities. There are many different dialects of this language. Northwestern, Southwestern, Northern, and Southern Kurmanji. The Kurdish language is written in two alphabets that is Latin and Hawar. The Hawar alphabet is commonly used in Syria, Turkey, and Armenia. Central Kurdish features eight different vowels while seven are represented with letters. The letters are quite similar to English. It also gets some inspiration from the Armenian alphabet. There are 15 million native speakers of Kurdish.
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.
