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The first grammar and dictionary of the Samoan language, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, with English and Samoan Vocabulary, was written by Reverend George Pratt in 1862. [17] Pratt's valuable Samoan dictionary records many old words of special interest, specialist terminology, archaic words and names in Samoan tradition.
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 ...
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 ...
Palagi (pronounced [ˈpaːlaŋi] – 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 foreigners.
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.
Samoan words and phrases (1 C, 39 P) Samoan-language films (4 P) Songs in Samoan (1 P) Pages in category "Samoan language" ... This list may not reflect recent ...
Samoan: koma liliu "Inverted comma"—inverted (liliu) comma (koma) Often replaced by an apostrophe in modern publications, recognized by Samoan scholars and the wider community. [1] Use of the apostrophe and macron diacritics in Samoan words was readopted by the Ministry of Education in 2012 after having been abandoned in the 1960s. [2 ...