Papunesia · ISO 639-3 smo · Glottocode samo1305
Samoan
Samoan adds to the Austronesian selection with source links to Samoa and American Samoa and a Latin script assignment.
- Language family
- Austronesian
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Papunesia
- Source country codes
- AS · WS
- Reference point
- -13.920, -171.830
Open research question
Which differences in diacritics, formal norms and community writing practice need separate documentation?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.