| LC control no. | sh 85117034 |
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| LC classification | PL6501 PL6501.95 |
| Topical heading | Samoan language |
| Variant(s) | Gagana fa'a Sāmoa language Gagana Samoa language |
| See also | American Samoa--Languages Polynesian languages Samoa--Languages |
| Found in | Jahri Jah Jah. Little kiddy Samoan, 2009: cover (Samoan for kids) p. 4 of cover (Learn to speak words and phrases in Sāmoan) Ethnologue, via WWW, July 26, 2022 (Samoan; a language of Samoa; also spoken in American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, U.S.; autonym: Gagana Samoa. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, Samoan) Omniglot : the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages, July 26, 2022 (Samoan (Gagana fa'a Sāmoa). Samoan is a Polynesian language spoken mainly in Western Samoa and American Samoa, and also in New Zealand, Australia and the USA; Samoan is an official language in both Samoa and American Samoa, along with English. It is closely related Wallisian, Rarotongan and Tongan) Britannica online, July 26, 2022 (under Polynesian languages: The best-known Polynesian languages are Samoan, with about 200,000 speakers; Maori, spoken in New Zealand by about 100,000 persons; Tahitian, with an unknown number of native speakers but widely used as a lingua franca in French Polynesia; and Hawaiian, with only a few remaining native speakers but formerly spoken by perhaps 100,000 persons. Samoan is the national language of Samoa (formerly Western Samoa), and Tongan is the official tongue of the Kingdom of Tonga) |
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