Samoan literature imperialism, Language shift, and linguicide. 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
Tahitian language Pō-mare (literally means 'night coughing'), under which his dynasty has become best known. By consequence "pō" (night) became "ruʻi" (nowadays only used in the Bible, pō having become the word commonly in use once again), but "mare" (literally cough) has irreversibly been replaced by "hota". Other examples include; Some of the old words are still used on the Leewards. Tahitian language Tahitian (autonym , part of , languages of French Polynesia) is a Polynesian language, spoken mainly on the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It belongs to the Eastern Polynesian group. As Tahitian had no written tradition before the arrival