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Samoan (''Gagana fa'a Sāmoa'' or ''Gagana Sāmoa'' — IPA: (:ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa)) is the language of the Samoan Islands, comprising the independent country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa. It is an official language—alongside English—in both jurisdictions. Samoan, a Polynesian language, is the first language for most of the Samoa Islands' population of about 246,000 people. With many Samoan people living in other countries, the total number of speakers worldwide is estimated at 470,000. It is the third most widely-spoken language in New Zealand, where more than 2% of the population - 86,000 people - were able to speak it as of 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 2013 Census totals by topic )〕 The language is notable for the phonological differences between formal, and informal speech as well as a ceremonial form used in Samoan oratory. ==Classification== Samoan is a member of the Austronesian family, and more specifically the Samoic branch of the Polynesian subphylum. It is closely related to other Polynesian languages with many shared cognate words such as ''ali'i'', '''ava'', ''atua'', ''tapu'' and numerals as well as in the name of gods in mythology. Linguists differ somewhat on the way they classify Samoan in relation to the other Polynesian languages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) )〕 The "traditional" classification,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ethnologue Report for Polynesian )〕 based on shared innovations in grammar and vocabulary, places Samoan with Tokelauan, the Polynesian outlier languages and the languages of Eastern Polynesia, which include Rapanui, Māori, Tahitian and Hawaiian. Nuclear Polynesian and Tongic (the languages of Tonga and Niue) are the major subdivisions of Polynesian under this analysis. A revision by Marck reinterpreted the relationships among Samoan and the outlier languages. In 2008 an analysis, of basic vocabulary only, from the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database is contradictory in that while in part it suggests that Tongan and Samoan form a subgroup,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database figure template )〕 the old subgroups Tongic and Nuclear Polynesian are still included in the classification search of the database itself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Classification search of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samoan language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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