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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.
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Faʻa Sāmoa consists of the Samoan language, customs of relationships, and culture, that constitute the traditional and continuing Polynesian lifestyle on Samoa and in the Samoan diaspora. It embraces an all-encompassing system of behavior and of responsibilities that spells out all Samoans' relationships to one another and to persons holding ...
Their first show as a duo was called A Small Samoan Wedding, and toured around New Zealand in 2004 before traveling overseas. Since then, they have toured with a new show almost every year: Laughing with Samoans (2003) A Small Samoan Wedding (2004) Old School (2005) Off Work (2006) Crack Me Off (2008) Prettyful Woman (2009) Choka-Block (2010)
Talofa echoes in such phrases as ta'alofa in Tuvalu, aloha in Hawaiian and aro'a in Cook Islands Māori. 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.
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The word pati in Fa'ataupati means "to clap", Fa'ataupati means to 'forcefully clap or to slap'.. Dances in Samoa would reflect on everyday life activities. In the 19th century there was an invasion of mosquitoes to the Kingdom, which later on became another part of everyday life, and it was there that the Fa'ataupati was created from when a man would forcefully slap his body. [1]