Language · Austronesian
Samoan
gagana Sāmoa – its own name
Official or co-official in 2 countries. Listed in 2 countries.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 253 thousand
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Oceanic
- Central Pacific linkage
- Tokalau Fijian
- Polynesian
- Nuclear Polynesian
- Ellicean
- Pukapukic
- Samoan-Tokelauan
- Samoan
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 2
Co-official
- Samoa 100% 209 thousand
- American Samoa 99% 43 thousand