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