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How to Translate from Marshallese to Samoan
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Language Comparison: Marshallese vs Samoan
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Aspect | Marshallese | Samoan |
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Family | Austronesian | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 55,000 | Approximately 500,000 |
Features | An Oceanic language spoken in the Marshall Islands, noted for its complex vowel system and distinctive consonant phonology | A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa |
Countries | Marshall Islands | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but has a rich system of prepositions and verb inflections to denote spatial and temporal relations | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Part of the Micronesian family within the larger Austronesian language group | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From English, Japanese, and other Pacific languages | From English and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Two main dialects: Rālik (western) and Ratak (eastern) | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands |
Alphabets | A, Ā, B, D, E, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ṇ, Ŋ, O, Ō, P, R, T, U, W | A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ) |
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