Samoan language
Spoken in
- Austronesian Malayo - Polynesian languages Polynesian languages Samoische languages Samoan
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The Samoan language belongs to the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family and is in conjunction with, for example, Tuvaluan, Tokelauisch and the languages of many Polynesian enclaves of the subgroup Samoische languages. It is the official language in Samoa and American Samoa.
Sound system and pronunciation
The Samoan sound system contains 15 phonemes: the vowels / a, e, i, o, u / and the consonants / f, g, l, m, n, p, s, t, v /.
To indicate that a vowel should be pronounced long, a macron is placed over the vowel: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū.
In foreign words are also used