The Sāmoan or Samoan language is the traditional language of
Samoa and
American Samoa and is an official language — alongside
English — in both jurisdictions. It is a member of the
Austronesian family, and more specifically the
Samoic branch of the
Polynesian subphylum. There are 370,337 Samoan-speakers worldwide, nearly half of them in the Samoan Islands. Thereafter, the greatest concentration is in
New Zealand, where Samoans are the third largest ethnic group after
Pakeha and
Maori: the 2001 New Zealand census recorded 81,036 speakers of the Samoan language, and 114,435 ethnic Samoans. Separate data showed that 71,769 ethnic Samoans in New Zealand could speak Samoan — 62.7 per cent. The majority of Samoans in New Zealand (76,581 persons or 66.9 per cent), and by implication the greater proportion of Samoan speakers in the country, reside in the commercial capital,
Auckland.
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