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 o

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language#Derivational_morphology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language#Derivation... [3] https://lisatravis2012.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/reduplication-in-maori/ https://lisatravis2012.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/reduplicatio...