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The "g" is pronounced with "ng" sound, so Pago Pago is pronounced Pahngo Pahngo. You can have fun correcting your educated friends with this one. | The "g" is pronounced with "ng" sound, so Pago Pago is pronounced Pahngo Pahngo. You can have fun correcting your educated friends with this one. | ||
Vowels: a,e, i, o, u pronounced generally as in romantic languages such as Spanish and Italian. | Vowels: a,e, i, o, u pronounced generally as in romantic languages such as Spanish and Italian. | ||
The Samoa alphabet consists of 14 letters, with another three letters ('''''H''''', '''''K''''', '''''R''''') used in loan words. The '''{{okina}}''' (''koma liliu'' or ''[[ʻokina]]'') is used for the [[glottal stop]]. | |||
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! Aa, Āā || Ee, Ēē || Ii, Īī || Oo, Ōō || Uu, Ūū ||Ff || Gg || Ll || Mm || Nn || Pp || Ss || Tt || Vv || (Hh) || (Kk) || (Rr) || [[ʻOkina|‘]] | |||
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| {{IPA|/a/}}, {{IPA|/aː/}} || {{IPA|/ɛ/}}, {{IPA|/eː/}} || {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, {{IPA|/iː/}} || {{IPA|/o/}}, {{IPA|/ɔː/}}|| {{IPA|/ʊ, w/}}, {{IPA|/uː/}}|| {{IPA|/f/}} || {{IPA|/ŋ/}} || {{IPA|/l, ɾ/}} || {{IPA|/m/}} || {{IPA|/n, ŋ/}} || {{IPA|/p/}} || {{IPA|/s/}} || {{IPA|/t, k/}} || {{IPA|/v/}} || ({{IPA|/h/}}) || ({{IPA|/k/}}) || ({{IPA|/ɾ/}}) || {{IPA|/ʔ/}} | |||
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===Vowels=== | |||
Vowel length is phonemic in Samoan; all five vowels also have a long form denoted by the [[Macron (diacritic)|macron]].<ref name=hunkin/> For example, ''tama'' means child or boy, while ''tamā'' means father. | |||
==Language Aids and Dictionaries== | ==Language Aids and Dictionaries== | ||