Samoan is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands are split between the sovereign country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa. It is an official language, alongside English, in both jurisdictions.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2020-2022 estimate, native speakers. StatusWikipedia article on Samoan: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Classification
Language Kind Official Status Connections
In Family
Source Wikipedia: Samoan Language
Source Wikipedia: Samoan Language
Written In
Samoan is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.
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Cases Where Used
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Source Wikipedia: SamoanLead sentence 1tier 3Quote, Lead sentence 1
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.
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Sources
1. Glottolog: Samoan (Glottolog languoid samo1305)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Samoan Language
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Administratively, the islands are split between the sovereign country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa.
Infobox: iso2
smo
Infobox, Speakers
430,000 (2020-2022)
Infobox: states
Samoa, American Samoa
Official status, Samoan entity page
It is an official language, alongside English, in both jurisdictions.
In Family: Malayo-Polynesian, Infobox, Language family
Malayo-Polynesian
In Family: Central Pacific languages, Infobox: fam7
Central Pacific
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