American Samoa Languages

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Description

American Samoa has two official languages: English and Samoan.

Word List(s)

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

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Samoan Alphabet

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 (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 (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 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.