Names of the Letters

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Igoa ‘o mata‘itusi ‘o le ‘Alafapeti Fa‘asāmoa (Pi Tautau)
Names of the letters in the Sāmoan Alphabet


‘O le ‘alafapeti Fa‘asāmoa, ‘e sefulufā (14) ona mata‘itusi, ‘ae ‘ua fa‘aopoopo ‘i ai ma mata‘itusi ‘o le h, k ma le r, sā vae‘upu(nonō) mai le ‘alafapeti ‘Igilisi, ‘ona ‘ātoa ai lea ‘o le sefulufitu (17) ‘o mata‘itusi ‘o lo‘o fa‘aaogāina ‘i le Gagana Sāmoa.

The Sāmoan alphabet consists of 14 letters plus h, k, and r, which were adopted from the English alphabet; that makes a total of 17 letters in the Sāmoan language.


A a E e I i O o U u
F f G g L l M m N n P p S s T t V v
H h K k R r

 

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