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Languages of American Samoa

[See also SIL publications on the languages of American Samoa.]

Territory of American Samoa. 64,000. National or official languages: English, Samoan. A USA territory. 7 islands: Tutuila, Aunuu, Manua Islands (Ta’u, Olosega, Ofu), Rose, Swains. Literacy rate: 98%. Immigrant languages: Japanese (1,500), Korean, Tokelauan (100), Tongan (800). Information mainly from N. Besnier 1992; S. Wurm and S. Hattori 1981. The number of individual languages listed for American Samoa is 2. Of those, both are living languages.

English	[eng] 1,250 in American Samoa (1970 census).  Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English  More information.
Samoan	[smo] 56,700 in American Samoa (1999).  Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, Samoan  More information.