Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitan

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...

Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum should write a song about this place.

Actually thought this was spam!