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!<p>The wiki article has some brief info on its morphology: [2]<p>But its not <i>completely</i> 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]<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language#Derivational_morphology" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language#Derivation...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://lisatravis2012.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/reduplication-in-maori/" rel="nofollow">https://lisatravis2012.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/reduplicatio...</a>