File talk:Fijian-Polynesian.svg

Shouldn't all of NZ, including the south island be circled? Maori speaking communities exist there today, and have since not that long after the Māori arrived in the north island.

I traced out the Maori-speaking areas according to the sources I had at the time. It isn't every neighboring with a Maori-speaking family, but Maori-speaking areas, as here.[1] Polynesian is often portrayed as covering a third of the planet, which is a bit of an exaggeration, and I was trying to avoid that. kwami (talk) 06:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ouch, ethnologue paywall is awful lol. Prehistoric South Island Maori is a slightly different dialect to prehistoric North Island Maori (cf Ngati, Kati) and both dialects survive among native speakers today. I've come here with the same question, why no South Island? I might understand the reasoning if I had a couple of thousand dollars for that ethnologue subscription. It's also missing "the chats" (moriori). Probably the ethnologue information is just incomplete and one of us should come back with more sources. Bloody wicked map though, eh? Sweet. 101.100.139.248 (talk) 03:58, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]