Va'a-o-Fonoti
Samoa, electoral constituency, population 1,295, first language Samoan.
Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · WS-VF · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet
Language stack
The roles this state's languages play, with a share where a census gives one.
How this is measured
A label comes from the States sheet and has no share. A share comes from a census and names its basis. Both can exist for one language.
Labels from the States sheet; no census share yet.
Official-language count: 2. Diversity below is country-level.
Languages of Samoa
Country-level shares: CLDR, with a census or survey where CLDR has none. They overlap and are never normalised.
How this is measured
Effective number of languages 1.00, Greenberg diversity 0.00, both on the raw shares and country-level.
How far lingua francas reach
Share able to hold a conversation, first or second language.
How this is measured
Each row carries its source tier. A Tier 1 census figure is this state's own; a Tier 3 figure is the country's, not this state's.
Other states in Samoa50
A'ana Alofi 1Samoan
A'ana Alofi 2Samoan
A'ana Alofi 3Samoan
A'ana Alofi 4Samoan
Aiga-i-le-TaiSamoan
Alataua i SisifoSamoan
Aleipata Itupa-i-LaloSamoan
Aleipata Itupa-i-LugaSamoan
Anoama'a 1Samoan
Anoama'a 2Samoan
Fa'asaleleaga 1Samoan
Fa'asaleleaga 2Samoan
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Fa'asaleleaga 3Samoan
Fa'asaleleaga 4Samoan
Fa'asaleleaga 5Samoan
Falealili 1Samoan
Falealili 2Samoan
FalealupoSamoan
Faleata 1Samoan
Faleata 2Samoan
Faleata 3Samoan
Faleata 4Samoan
Falelatai & SamatauSamoan
Gaga'emauga 1Samoan
Gaga'emauga 2Samoan
Gaga'ifomauga 1Samoan
Gaga'ifomauga 2Samoan
Gaga'ifomauga 3Samoan
Lefaga & Falease'elaSamoan
LepaSamoan
LotofagaSamoan
Palauli 1Samoan
Palauli 2Samoan
Palauli 3Samoan
Safata 1Samoan
Safata 2Samoan
Sagaga 1Samoan
Sagaga 2Samoan
Sagaga 3Samoan
Sagaga 4Samoan
Salega 1Samoan
Salega 2Samoan
Satupa'iteaSamoan
Si'umuSamoan
Vaimauga 1Samoan
Vaimauga 2Samoan
Vaimauga 3Samoan
Vaimauga 4Samoan
Vaisigano 1Samoan
Vaisigano 2Samoan
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Where these numbers come from
- Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
- Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
- Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
- States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
- Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
- Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).
Labels are the States sheet's. Shares marked country-level are CLDR's for the whole country, not a measurement of this state. See Method.