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Including second-language speakers, there are more speakers of Samoan than English in Samoa. Samoan Sign Language is also commonly used among the deaf population of Samoa. To emphasize the importance of full inclusion with sign language, elementary Samoan Sign Language was taught to members of the Samoa Police Service, Red Cross Society, and public during the 2017 International Week of the Deaf.
Tongan is one of the multiple languages in the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, along with Hawaiian, Māori, Samoan and Tahitian, for example. Together with Niuean, it forms the Tongic subgroup of Polynesian. Tongan is unusual among Polynesian languages in that it has a so-called definitive accent.
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 .
The terms tālā and sene are the equivalents of the English words dollar and cent in the Samoan language. Its symbol is $, or WS$ to distinguish it from other currencies named dollar . The word 'tala' is also derived from the German word ' Thaler ', and pronounced the same. The tālā was introduced on 10 July 1967, following the country's ...
Distribuzione geografica. Secondo l'edizione 2009 di Ethnologue, il samoano è parlato da quasi 200.000 persone alle Samoa e da 56.700 persone nelle Samoa Americane. La lingua è attestata anche alle Figi, in Nuova Zelanda, negli Stati Uniti d'America e a Tonga. Complessivamente, si stimano tra 370.000 e 510.000 locutori.
Gagana faʻa Sāmoa. ʻO le gagana Sāmoa ʻo le gagana moni a Sāmoa (Sāmoa i Sisifo), ʻatoa foʻi ma Amerika Sāmoa (Sāmoa i Sasaʻe). ʻO le gagana Sāmoa e i totonu o le liʻo o ʻĀiga o gagana o Austronesia. ʻO lenā ʻāiga e aofia ai le gagana faʻatoga, faʻatokelau, faʻatuvalu, ma malagasy .
The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture. In Samoan culture, most activities are done together. The traditional living quarters, or fale (houses), contain no walls and up to 20 people may sleep on the ground in the same fale. During the day, the fale is used for chatting ...
