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Samoa language refers to Samoan which is the major language used and spoken by majority of Samoan population. The other language in Samoa used widely used especially in most of the official and business transactions is English.
An Austronesian language, Samoan is spoken mostly in the western part of Samoa and in American Samoa. Approximately 420,000 people (in Samoa and American Samoa combined) speak this Samoa language. Samoan is also spoken by a large number of people in Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and U.S.A. Samoan is the traditional language of Samoa and American Samoa and is also used as the official language together with English.
With such a wide coverage Samoan can aptly be called the language of Samoa. Samoan resembles the other Polynesian languages to a large extent, especially Tongan. The Samoan alphabet consists of 14 letters. The alphabets are:
Aa, Ee, Ff, gg, Ii, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv
The vowels of Samoan can be both long and short. The long vowels have a macron. The syllables contain only a vowel or a consonant with a vowel. Consonants cannot come beside each other. There are a number of grammatical rules in Samoan and most of them pertain to the alphabets and the pronouns.
Samoan language is similar to a few Indonesian languages in the sense that one thing can have two words depending on the identity of the person to whom the thing belongs. There exists a separate form of this Samoa language that is spoken only by the matais during ceremonies and occasions.
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