Samoan

Also known as Samoan language, sm

language of the Samoan Islands

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Samoan is the language spoken by people in the Samoan Islands, a group of islands in the South Pacific. It matters because it's the primary way millions of Samoans communicate with each other and preserve their cultural identity and heritage.

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ABVD: Samoan

A Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary

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Wikimedia language code: sm
native label: Gagana Samoa
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 413257
Commons category: Samoan language
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SMO
P10369: London
P11012: Pervomaysk
described at URL: lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=118

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Samoan (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈfaʔa ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands are split between the sovereign country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa. It is an official language, alongside English, in both jurisdictions. It is widely spoken across the Pacific region, heavily so in New Zealand and in Australia and the United States. Among the Polynesian languages, Samoan is the most widely spoken by a number of native speakers.

Samoan is spoken by approximately 260,000 people in the archipelago and with many Samoans living in diaspora in a number of countries, the total number of speakers worldwide was estimated at 510,000 in 2015. It is the third-most widely spoken language in New Zealand, where 2.2% of the population, 101,900 people, were able to speak it as of 2018.