Samoan
Facts
- Language: Samoan
- Alternate names:
- Language code: smo
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Ellicean, Samoan-Tokelauan
- Number of speakers: 199000
- Script:
More information:
Introduction
Samoan is a language of Samoa. It is spoken in Also in American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Tonga, United States.
Dialects
No significant dialect variation, but important register-based distinctions in phonology. Lexical similarity: 70% with Wallisian (See: Wallisian), 67% with Rarotongan (See: Rarotongan), 66% with Tongan (See: Tongan).
The Samoan Verb
Verblist
- 'a'a
- 'aisago
- 'oti
- afuafua
- alofa
- alu
- fa'afetai
- fa'ama
- fa'amaulalo
- fana
- fe'aina'i
- fefe
- fia
- fili
- filifili
- fā'i
- galue
- iloa
- la'a
- lava-lava
- logo
- malie
- malōlō
- matagi
- moe
- mālōlō
- sili
- siva
- tagi
- tanu
- tausi
- tu'ulafoa'i
- tulei
- tuli
- tusi
- tā
- veve
- 'aisola, 'aisā, ŋaoi -- to steal
- anu -- to spit
- aŋi, sau -- to blow
- aʔe, piʔi -- to climb
- fa'atau mai, tautotoŋi -- to buy
- faitau -- to count
- fāliu -- to turn
- fana -- to shoot
- fasioti, tāmate -- to kill
- faʔa-loŋo -- to hear
- faʔa-mutu, sele -- to cut, hack
- fefe, mataʔu -- to fear
- fefete, fula -- to swell
- fela'u, lala'u -- to scratch
- filifili -- to choose
- ilo-a -- to know, be knowledgeable
- inu -- to drink
- isi, matofi -- to split
- 'ite, matamata, vaʔai -- to see
- lafi, nanā -- to hide
- lamu, mama -- to chew
- lele -- to fly
- luaʔi, puaʔi -- to vomit
- manatu, māfaufau -- to think
- mānava -- to breathe
- matala, susu'e -- to open, uncover
- mate -- to die, be dead
- maui, ola -- to live, be alive
- māvava -- to yawn
- miti -- to dream
- moe -- to sleep
- mu, susunu, tafu -- to burn
- noa -- to tie up, fasten
- nofo -- to sit
- ŋalue -- to work
- paʔū, tō- -- to fall
- saele, savali -- to walk
- sau, ō mai -- to come
- soŋi -- to sniff, smell
- susu -- to suck
- suʔi -- to sew
- tafe -- to flow
- taŋi -- to cry
- tao -- to cook
- ta'oto -- to lie down
- tautala -- to say
- tō -- to plant
- toŋi -- to throw
- tū -- to stand
- tui -- to stab, pierce
- tu'i, tā -- to hit
- tuli -- to hunt
- tupu -- to grow
- tuʔituʔi -- to pound, beat
- ʔai -- to eat
- ʔata -- to laugh
- ʔati, u, utia -- to bite
- ʔaʔau -- to swim
- ʔeli, ʔoso -- to dig
- ʔoʔomi -- to squeeze
- ʔuʔu -- to hold