Samoan literature Samoan literature Samoan literature can be divided into oral (pre-colonial and post-colonial) and written literatures, in the Samoan language and in English or English translation, and is from the Samoa Islands of independent Samoa and American Samoa, and Samoan writers in diaspora. Samoan as a written language emerged after 1830 when Tahitian and English missionaries from the London Missionary Society, working with Samoan chiefly orators, developed a Latin script based Samoan written language. Before this, there were "logologo" (tapa signs) and "tatau" (tattoo signs) but no phonetic written form. Pre-colonial and post-colonial Samoan oral literature includes "solo" (poetic narratives), "fa'alupega"
Tongan language right, a position halfway in between the two extremes above. Most papers still follow this practice. English, like most European languages, uses only two articles: By contrast, Tongan has three articles, and possessives also have a three-level definiteness distinction: There are three registers which consist of There are also further distinctions between For example, the phrase "Come and eat!" translates to: The Tongan language distinguishes 3 numbers: singular, dual, and plural. They appear as the 3 major columns in the tables below. The Tongan language distinguishes 4 persons: First person exclusive, first person inclusive, second person and third person. They