Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitan

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by stigi • 6 years ago

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osdotsystem• 6 years ago

Actually thought this was spam!

stigi• 6 years ago

I would not dare :)

But the title would actually overrun the limit by 4 characters. But I still thought it would be interesting to share. I love the colorful description in the name. Also I like That German is not the only language with loooong names :)

ChrisGranger• 6 years ago

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eindiran• 6 years ago

Given how long the name was, I was guessing that Māori would have a highly synthetic morphology (meaning a language where the words are very long and composed of lots of little parts), but turns out it is largely analytic (the opposite: the language doesn't have complex words, but uses helper words and syntax to convey the information instead), which I was quite surprised to find out!

The wiki article has some brief info on its morphology: [2]

But its not completely without morphology: like most Polynesian languages, it has reduplication. Apparently its used to mark plurals when inside of a noun, or to intensify the meaning of a word: [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language#Derivation...

[3] https://lisatravis2012.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/reduplicatio...

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