Samoan
language of the Samoan Islands
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Summary
Samoan is a natural language[1]. Samoan draws 2,789 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #121 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Samoa[3], American Samoa[4], New Zealand[5], Australia[6]
- Instance of: modern language[7]
- Subclass of: Ellicean[8]
- Writing system: Latin script[9], Latin alphabet[10]
- Commons category: Samoan language[11]
- Wikimedia language code: sm[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Samoan language[13]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=118[14]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 415,720[15], 169,000[16], 413,257[17]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18]
- Native label: Gagana fa'a Sāmoa[19], Gagana Samoa[20]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154122[21]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[22]
- Indigenous to: Samoa[23]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SMO[24]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[25]
- Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object[26]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Samoan-language films[27]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Samoan-language music[28]
Why It Matters
Samoan has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Samoan is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]