Langenesis

Austronesian family

Samoan

c. 500 CE – today Living

Samoan (c. 500 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Proto-Oceanic → Proto-Central Pacific → Proto-Polynesian → Samoan.

See Samoan on the interactive map
Speakers
510K (510,000)
ISO 639-3
smo
Glottocode
samo1305

Nuclear Polynesian (Samoic). The Nuclear Polynesian and Samoic–Outlier intermediate stages are not tracked. Start date is nominal.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  3. Proto-Oceanicc. 1,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Pacificc. 1,000 BCE – 800 BCE
  5. Proto-Polynesianc. 800 BCE – 100 CE
  6. Samoanc. 500 CE – today

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Polynesian.

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