The history of the Maori language is one that includes many regional dialects as the speakers lived in villages throughout Eastern Polynesia that were separated by water, creating linguistic diversity. Also, Maori had no written language until 1814, when missionaries first attempted to  write the language down and by 1820 Professor Samuel Lee of Cambridge University and chief Hongi Hika and his junior relative Waikato worked to create a writing system. 

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