What is the difference between Hawaiian and Samoan languages?

question:- What is the difference between Hawaiian and Samoan languages?

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Samoan and Hawaiian both belong to a Polynesian branch of Austronesian languages but there is a difference in both of them. Hawaiian has the smallest number of consonants, 8, and Samoan has a slightly greater number of 10. Samoan unlike Hawaiian accepts both open syllabi, that is a syllable ending in a vowel and the closed syllabi, that is a syllable ending in a consonant. From the grammatical point of view, Samoan belongs to the ergative-absolutive type differentiating between transitive and intransitive verbs, and Hawaiian is a nominative-accusative type as English. Like many related languages, they have certain similarities due to their common origin, but they also have separate vocabularies and phrases produced by different cultural processes. Hawaiian employs the Latin writing system where the macron marks the length of the vowels and the Samoan language, besides the macrons, employs glottal stops.


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