Miao, also known as Hmongic, is a Sino-Tibetan language. The language is written with Chinese characters and with an alphabet known as Pollard Miao. There are around 2.6 million speakers of Miao language in china, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand USA, and French Guiana. Miao is written with a version of the Latin alphabet i.e., Romanized Popular Alphabet (RPA).
Mende is a major language of Sierra Leone. Mende is a tonal language which belongs to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family. It is spoken mainly by the Mende people and other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. There are around 1.26 million speakers in Liberia and Sierra Leone of Mende language.
Mbundu, also known as Umbundu is the Bantu language. It is spoken in Angola. There are around 4 million speakers, mainly in the central highlands and the western coastal region and also in the cities of Benguela, Lobito, Luanda and Lubango. The speakers of Umbundu language are known as Ovimbundu, and they call the language Úmbúndú.
Masai language is an East Niolitic language. There are around 900,000 speakers in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania of Masai language. The term Maasai refers to “one who speaks the Maa language”. Masai language is not used for writing as such.
Mari is a Uralic language and was earlier known as Cheremis. Mari was an official language of the Mari Republic, along with Russian. There are two main varieties of Mari – Hill or Western Mari and Meadow or Eastern Mari. Among these two variety, the Eastern variety is widely spoken and it is spoken by about 600,000 people in Russia, mainly in the Mari Republic.
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language. It is the official language of Maharashtra state of India and is one of the 23 official languages of India. It is the 19th most spoken language in the world. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India. The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India.
Maori is one of the official languages of New Zealand. It is spoken by the indigenous people of the country. Maori is an Eastern Polynesian language. There were two distinct Maori dialects prior to the European colonization of New Zealand, which is now extinct. There are around 125000 speakers of Maori language.
Manx, also known as Manx Gaelic, belongs to Indo- European language family. The language almost disappeared by 1973 with the death of the native speaker however, the linguistic revival has been successful and it is used by some families now. Manx is a Celtic language spoken on the Isle of Man and there are about a hundred competent Manx speakers.
Malayalam, is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Kerala. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam has official language status in the state of Kerala and in the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages, and is spoken approximately by 33 million people according to the latest census.
Korean is the official language of South Korea and North Korea as well as one of the two official languages in China’s Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Approximately 78 million people speak Korean worldwide. Korean is spoken by the Korean diaspora in many countries including the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the United States. Korean-speaking minorities exist in these states, but because of cultural assimilation into host countries, not all ethnic Koreans may speak it with native fluency.