Language code: sm

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sm

The table below provides technical details for the Samoan language, designated by the sm code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

sm

Name

Official

Samoan

Native

Gagana fa'a Sāmoa

Family
Oceanic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Samoan belongs to the Austronesian language family, specifically to the Oceanic subgroup. It is an official language in both Samoa and American Samoa and is written using the Latin script (Samoan alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 500,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

177K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Samoan speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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