Samoan
About Samoan
Samoan is a Polynesian language spoken primarily on the islands that compose American Samoa and Western Samoa in the Pacific Ocean. Samoan belongs to the Western Polynesian or Samoic-Outlier subgroup of Polynesian languages, along with languages such as East Futunan, Ellicean, Pukupukan, Tikopian, and Nukuoro. In American Samoa, it is the official language, alongside English, and is the first language of 246,000 people in the Samoa Islands’ population.
Samoan Courses
The University of Utah offers beginning Samoan language courses taught by a native-language speaker. Samoan language courses are offered in the fall semester (1010) and continuing into the spring (1020).
Samoan language classes count towards the foreign language credits required to complete a Bachelor of Arts.
To register search for WLC 2900 Beginning Samoan I
Mondays and Wednesdays 3:05pm-5:00pm
FLAS Scholarship
The Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship (FLAS) is provided by the Asia Center. For FAQs, application, and other information on the FLAS scholarship, click the button below.
Faculty
Christine Everaert
Associate Professor, Hindi
801-581-8381| LNCO 1215
christine.everaert@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2006, Ghent University, Belgium
Interests: Hindi & Urdu 20th-century short stories; Comparative (socio-) linguistics between
Hindi and Urdu; Subversive Indo-Pakistani literature; Sufism and Shi’ism in South
Asia