The Maori Language

The Maori language in New Zealand is considered a special language in the Malay - Polynesian language community. Murray - Polynesia is actually divided into four categories or sub-series - Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia -. Maori is a language family of East Polynesia and is relatively close to adjacent languages. At the same time, the spectacular and anxious part is a fluent Maori speaker of less than 10,000 people. A group of Polynesia can be divided into sub-groups of East Polynesia and West Polynesia (McLintok, 2009).

Maori's big problem is the problem of pronouns. Maori does not have a synonym of gender, and Maori considers it to be an important part of their language. The Maori students wrote the Maori language theme as if not Maori. For other reasons, the pronoun "You" has many problems. "You" is often used as a symbol to position a person to others like "you" or "you Maori". Another interesting thing is the view of Maori of homosexuality. Maori had no news about homosexuality, and that idea was blamed on Europeans. To become gay, they think that you ignore the tribal priority. From the eyes of Maori, you are either "gay" or "Maori".

Maori was the main language of New Zealand before 1840. In the late 1850s Maori became a minority language. The native school law passed the law that English should be the only language used in Maori education. By 1975, only 18% of the population was Maori, mainly elderly and fluent. However, in the year before the study, the Maori dialect of 1987 was passed. This bill proclaims Maori as an "official language" and allows it to be used for court proceedings. After Päkehä or the arrival of the Europeans, English influenced Māori in particular from a vocabulary standpoint. Most English speaking people can not pronounce Māori correctly, and this is considered to be a lack of respect for language and its speakers. People in Maori do not have as many consonant groups as English, and there are relatively few phonemes, so there is a general rhythm of making languages ​​melodic voice that Europeans can not master.