Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Samoan is an analytic, isolating language and a member of the Austronesian family, and more specifically the Samoic branch of the Polynesian subphylum. It is closely related to other Polynesian languages with many shared cognate words such as aliʻi, ʻava, atua, tapu and numerals as well as in the name of gods in mythology.
See as example Category:English words. Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Samoan words and phrases" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
Below are some Samoan plant names in alphabetical order in the Samoan language and their corresponding descriptions in English. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many are used in traditional medicines in the Samoa Islands comprising Samoa and American Samoa .
Pratt was the first person to document the Samoan language.He authored the first dictionary and grammar of the language, A Samoan Dictionary: English and Samoan, and Samoan and English; with a Short Grammar of the Samoan Dialect, published in 1862 by the London Missionary Society's Press in Samoa. [5]
The contemporary classification of the Polynesian languages began with certain observations by Andrew Pawley in 1966 based on shared innovations in phonology, vocabulary and grammar showing that the East Polynesian languages were more closely related to Samoan than they were to Tongan, calling Tongan and its nearby relative Niuean "Tongic" and ...
In Samoa the term is used to describe foreigners. The word is both a noun e.g. a Palagi (European person) or an adjective e.g. Palagi house (non-traditional Samoan house). The word is a cognate in other Polynesian languages and has gained widespread use throughout much of western Polynesia, including in Tokelau, Tuvalu, 'Uvea and Futuna.
The proverbs were collected and authored by Rev George Pratt, an English missionary from the London Missionary Society who lived in Samoa for 40 years, mostly in Matautu on the central north coast of Savai'i Island. [2] Following is a list of proverbs in the Samoan language and their meanings in the English language. Ia lafoia i le fogavaʻa tele.
Another Samoan salutation To life, live long! properly translated Ia ola! also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is 'Ia orana. Talofa is also the greeting of the island of Lifou (New Caledonia), and of the island state of Tuvalu.