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Samoa and American Samoan islands where Samoan is the official language. There are approximately 470,000 Samoan speakers worldwide, 50 percent of whom live in the Samoan Islands. [7] Thereafter, the greatest concentration is in New Zealand, where there were 101,937 Samoan speakers at the 2018 census, or 2.2% of the country's population. Samoan ...
Samoan pronunciation: Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] Template:IPA-sm is deprecated , and is preserved only for historical reasons.
I also changed the pronunciation guide into IPA, so the IPA cleanup tag is removed. I have, however, relied heavily on Omniglot.com while doing the edit, and while I personally find its information very valuable, I don't know for sure if it counts as a reliable source. In any case, the page itself isn't satisfyingly clear on the vowel issue. I ...
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 ...
Malietoa Laupepa, Malietoa from 1875 to 1898 Malietoa Tanumafili I, Malietoa from 1898 to 1939. Mālietoa (Samoan pronunciation: [maːɾiɛˈto.a] Mālietoa) is a state dynasty and one of the four paramount chiefly titles of Samoa.
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.
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.