Samoan
RegionSamoa/American Samoa
FamilyAustronesian
Speakers500,000 speakers
ScriptLatin
TypeAlphabetic
About Samoan
A Polynesian language of about a dozen letters plus a glottal stop. Every syllable ends in a vowel. Special chiefly vocabulary serves the ceremonial order of faa Samoa. Strong diaspora communities in New Zealand, Hawaii, and Australia. The source of the English word tattoo.
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