About Somali Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Somali is an Afroasiatic language and it belongs to the Cushitic branch. The language is spoken by Somalians. Somali is the official language of Somalia, Somaliland, and is widely spoken by Ethiopia. It is the national language in Djibouti and is also spoken in northeastern Kenya. The Somali language is written in the Latin alphabet and has an Arabic alphabet as well. Osmanya and the Borama script are used to write the Somali language. Somali is widely spoken in the region and is followed by Oromo and Afar. There are approximately 21.8 million speakers of Somali. The language is spread in Greater Somalia. It is spoken by around 7.8 million. People living in Somalia speak the language on daily basis. About 95% of the country's inhabitants speak the language. The majority of the population in Djibouti speaks Somali.
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.
