Karaka Maori [KIA]
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[view flag info] Karaka Maori
Te reu Mauri Karaka [tɛ rɛu mauri karaka]
[view flag info] Karaka Maori
Te reu Mauri Karaka [tɛ rɛu mauri karaka]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersKaraka Maori is spoken by a population of 1,228 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Karaka Maori
The Karaka Maori is a language spoken by the descendents of Maori people in the Mangalitia island. Karaka means orange in Maori. That's because the Maori people of the island were very influenciated by the mangalese culture, and the orange colour was adopted as sacred color.
Language family relationships
Language treeAustronesian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
⤷ Polynesian
⤷ Tahitic
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Maori
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Karaka Maori
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
⤷ Polynesian
⤷ Tahitic
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Maori⤷
Karaka Maori[view] About AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. A German scholar, Wilhelm Sch...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | (q) | ||||||||||
| Fricative | v | (s) | h | |||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | (ɬ) | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ʉ | u | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Karaka Maori. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Karaka MaoriOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| a1 Aa /a/ | e1 Ee /ɛ/ | hh Hh /h/ | i1 Ii /i/ | kk Kk /k/ | hll Ll /ɬ/1 | mm Mm /m/ | nn Nn /n/ | ngg NG ng /ŋ/ |
| pp Pp /p/ | qq Qq /q/2 | rr Rr /r/ | ss Ss /s/3 | tt Tt /t/ | u1 Uu /u/ | ww Ww /w/ | whh WH wh /v/ | o1 Üü /ʉ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
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