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.
About Basque Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The Basque language is popularly known as Euskara. It is spoken in Southwestern Europe, much before it was Romanized in the 1st century BCE. This language is used in an area that consists of 3,900 square miles in France and Spain. There is a wide range of Basque speakers in America and Europe. According to the latest updates, the total number of speakers is bilingual. In the 21st century, the total number of speakers has exceeded one million. You will be surprised to know that there is a total of eight dialects of Basque. However, the division is not very strong to mask the origin. These speech forms are used for mutual understanding. At the beginning of the era dialects of Basque are only spoken in the North and South of the Pyrenees. The dialects for now are completely overcome by Latin.
