About Ukrainian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Ukrainian is known as Ruthenian. It is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the Slavic languages and is a part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch. Ukrainian is the native language of Ukrainians. It is the official state language of Ukraine. The written script of Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic script. The Ukrainian language has a long history and is closely connected to the Old East Slavic of the early medieval state of Kyivan Rus. After Kyivan Rus and the Kingdom of Ruthenia lost their dominance the language developed in the form of the Ruthenian language. It is inspired by modern Ukraine and was also used in liturgical services. The Ukrainian language became common during the 17th century. It maintained major popularity in Western Ukraine, and the language was never banned over there.
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.
