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Language Comparison: Samoan vs Malay
Explore the linguistic characteristics and features of both languages
| Aspect | Samoan | Malay |
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Family | Austronesian, Polynesian | Austronesian |
Speakers | Approximately 500,000 | Approximately 88 million speakers (including Indonesian and other Malay dialects) |
Features | A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa | Widely spoken in Southeast Asia, Malay is known for its simplicity in grammar, especially in terms of verb conjugation and lack of inflection |
Countries | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States | Malaysia, Indonesia (as Indonesian), Brunei, Singapore, Thailand (southern provinces) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script (Rumi) and Arabic script (Jawi) |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships | No, uses prepositions and word order instead of grammatical cases |
Derived From | Proto-Polynesian | Old Malay, influenced by Sanskrit, Arabic, and later Portuguese, Dutch, and English |
Loanwords | From English and other Polynesian languages | From Sanskrit, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Chinese |
Dialects | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands | Includes Malaysian Malay, Indonesian Malay (Indonesian), Brunei Malay, Kedah Malay, Kelantanese Malay, and others |
Alphabets | A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ) | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
Family
Samoan
Austronesian, Polynesian
Malay
Austronesian
Speakers
Samoan
Approximately 500,000
Malay
Approximately 88 million speakers (including Indonesian and other Malay dialects)
Features
Samoan
A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa
Malay
Widely spoken in Southeast Asia, Malay is known for its simplicity in grammar, especially in terms of verb conjugation and lack of inflection
Countries
Samoan
Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States
Malay
Malaysia, Indonesia (as Indonesian), Brunei, Singapore, Thailand (southern provinces)
Writing System
Samoan
Latin script
Malay
Latin script (Rumi) and Arabic script (Jawi)
Tonal
Samoan
No
Malay
No
Grammatical Cases
Samoan
No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships
Malay
No, uses prepositions and word order instead of grammatical cases
Derived From
Samoan
Proto-Polynesian
Malay
Old Malay, influenced by Sanskrit, Arabic, and later Portuguese, Dutch, and English
Loanwords
Samoan
From English and other Polynesian languages
Malay
From Sanskrit, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Chinese
Dialects
Samoan
Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands
Malay
Includes Malaysian Malay, Indonesian Malay (Indonesian), Brunei Malay, Kedah Malay, Kelantanese Malay, and others
Alphabets
Samoan
A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ)
Malay
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Language Facts:
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