if you are samoan, you are from samoan islands.
if you are samoan, you are from samoan islands.
where are you from if you are samoan?
samoan islands
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there are approximately 470,000 samoan speakers worldwide, 50 per cent of whom live in the samoan islands. thereafter, the greatest concentration is in new zealand, where people of samoan ethnicity comprise the largest group after new zealand european, māori, and chinese: the 2006 new zealand census recorded 95,428 speakers of the samoan language, and 141,103 people of samoan ethnicity. among ethnic samoans in new zealand, 70.5 percent (87,109 people) could speak samoan. samoan is the third most commonly spoken language in new zealand after english and māori.
samoan language
in the 2010 u.s census, there were 184,440 samoan people in the united states stateside population, including those who have partial samoan ancestry. 60,876 people of samoan origin reside in california, meaning one-third of the samoan population lives in california. carson, long beach, compton, in los angeles county, and oceanside in san diego county have the highest concentration of samoans in southern california. also in san diego, the very first samoan church in the entire united states, which was founded in 1955 by rev. suitonu galea'i. in 1972 first samoan congregational church of san-jose, ca santa clara county rev felix t & molly t avamolifua affiliated with northern cali ucc. from there many of the samoan churches branched from the first samoan congregational christian church of san diego. garden grove in orange county has a samoan community, as well as a church located off century boulevard. in northern california, the housing projects bayview-hunters point and potrero hill neighborhoods in san francisco and san leandro in the east bay are home to sizable samoan communities, as well as in daly city, east palo alto, and hayward, which all are at least 0.5% samoan. in daly city, samoan restaurants and businesses are located off geneva avenue. smaller communities of samoans can be found in sacramento, modesto and stockton.
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