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Language Comparison: Samoan vs Marshallese
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Aspect | Samoan | Marshallese |
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Family | Austronesian, Polynesian | Austronesian |
Speakers | Approximately 500,000 | Approximately 55,000 |
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 | An Oceanic language spoken in the Marshall Islands, noted for its complex vowel system and distinctive consonant phonology |
Countries | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States | Marshall Islands |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships | No, but has a rich system of prepositions and verb inflections to denote spatial and temporal relations |
Derived From | Proto-Polynesian | Part of the Micronesian family within the larger Austronesian language group |
Loanwords | From English and other Polynesian languages | From English, Japanese, and other Pacific languages |
Dialects | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands | Two main dialects: Rālik (western) and Ratak (eastern) |
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, Ā, B, D, E, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ṇ, Ŋ, O, Ō, P, R, T, U, W |
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