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Revision as of 13:58, 29 June 2020

American Samoa Wiki Topics
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Beginning Research
Record Types
American Samoa Background
Local Research Resources

Description[edit | edit source]

American Samoa has two official languages: English and Samoan. [1]

Word List(s)[edit | edit source]

Commonly used Samaon words at Samoa.ws. Samoan words list at My Languages.org.

Alphabet and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]

Samoan Alphabet[edit | edit source]

Consonants Pronunciation
F [ f ]
G [ ŋ ]
L [ Ɩ/ɾ ]
M [ m ]
P [ p ]
S [ s ]
T [ t/k ]
V [ v ]
Other Letters Pronunciation
A [ a ]
E [ ɛ ]
I [ I ]
O [ o ]
U [ ʊ/w ]
Other Letters Pronunciation
Ā [ a: ]
Ē [ e ]
Ī [ i: ]
Ō [ as in dough ]
U [ u: ]

Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]

(Provide online links to more helps, such as online dictionaries, language lessons/practices, etc., many of these can be found through Google searches for the language of interest, followed by terms such as "learn", "lessons", etc.) - for example page, see Zambia Languages.
NOTE: For any publications, include full bibliographic citation and link to details online, such as the link to the book's WorldCat entry.

Additional Resources[edit | edit source]

(Links or lists of publications, websites, etc. for more language helps, such as books on grammar from WorldCat, tutorials online, etc.) - for example page, see Zambia Languages.

References[edit | edit source]

This is just a category to put all the sandbox pages - including those that were created by accident. Should anyone with power to do so want to delete them they'll find them mostly here.

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "American Samoa," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa, accessed 29 June 2020.