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Samoan is the third-most spoken language in New Zealand after English and Māori. [ 8 ] According to the 2021 census in Australia conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Samoan language is spoken in the homes of 49,021 people.
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.
Palagi (pronounced IPA: [/'pɑːlʌŋiː/] – singular) or papalagi (plural) is a term in Samoan culture of uncertain etymology, sometimes used to describe foreigners. Papālagi~Pālagi is a word in the Samoan language describing non-Samoans, usually white foreigners of European or American descent. In Samoa the term is used to describe ...
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
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 .
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 ...
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.
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 ...