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Sparteye's wonderful post on the days of the week got me thinking about Maaori names for the days of the week, which led me to discover that there aren't any. That is to say, pre-European Maaori did not use a weekly cycle, but a lunar month cycle, with each day in the cycle having its own name. This link, http://www.culture.co.nz/maramataka/ shows the names of the days in the Maaori spoken where I live, and this one http://www.att.virtualclassroom.org/vc99/vc_44/po.html shows the list in another (unspecified) regional variant. Modern Maaori has transliterated the English names for weekdays, Manei, Turei, etc. Are there any other official national languages which have and use names for days of the month, rather than days of the week?
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