Samoic languages
{{Short description|Purported group of Polynesian languages}}
{{Infobox language family
|name=Samoic
|altname=Samoic–Outlier
|region=Polynesian islands
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian?
|fam4=Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
|fam5=Oceanic
|fam6=Central–Eastern Oceanic
|fam7=Central Pacific
|fam8=East Central Pacific
|fam9=Polynesian
|fam10=Nuclear Polynesian
|child1=East Uvean–Niuafo'ou
|child2=Ellicean
|child3=Futunic
|child4=Pukapuka
|child5=Samoan
|child6=Tokelauan
|glotto=none
}}
The Samoic–Outlier languages, also known as Samoic languages, are a purported group of Polynesian languages, encompassing the Polynesian languages of Samoa, Tuvalu, American Samoa, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, and Polynesian outlier languages in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and the Federated States of Micronesia. The name "Samoic-Outlier" recognizes Samoan.
Classification
=Ethnologue=
According to Ethnologue 26, the Samoic–Outlier languages are as follows:
{{Tree list}}
- Samoic–Outlier
- East Uvean–Niuafo’ou
- Niuatoputapu
- Niuafo’ou
- Wallisian
- Ellicean
- Kapingamarangi
- Takuu
- Nukuoro
- Nukumanu
- Nukeria
- Ontong Java
- Sikaiana
- Tuvaluan
- Futunic
- Anuta
- East Futuna
- Futuna–Aniwa
- Emae
- Rennell–Bellona
- Mele–Fila
- Vaeakau–Taumako
- Tikopia
- Fagauvea
- Pukapuka
- Samoan
- Tokelauan
{{Tree list/end}}
=Glottolog=
Hammarström et al. do not view the Samoic–Outlier languages as a valid phylogenetic clade. As such, the languages classified as Samoic–Outlier languages in Ethnologue are classified in the Glottolog database within Nuclear Polynesian as follows:{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nucl1485 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Nuclear Polynesian |date=2023-07-10 |access-date=2023-11-17 |website=Glottolog |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117203121/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nucl1485 |archive-date=2023-11-17 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |author-link=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=Leipzig |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}
{{Tree list}}
- Nuclear Polynesian
- Anuta
- East Futuna
- East Uvean–Niuafoʻou
- East Uvean
- Niuafoʻou
- Niuatoputapu
- Ellicean
- Pukapukic
- Pukapuka
- Samoan–Tokelauan
- Samoan
- Tokelau
- Tuvalu
- Northern Outlier Polynesian–East Polynesian
- Carolinean Outlier Polynesian
- Kapingamarangi
- Nukuoro
- Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian–East Polynesian
- Central Northern Outlier Polynesian–East Polynesian
- Central Northern Outlier Polynesian
- Luangiua
- Takuuic
- Nukumanu
- Nukuria
- Takuu
- East Polynesian
- [...]
- Sikaiana
- Rennell–Bellona
- Tikopia
- Vaeakau–Taumako
- Vanuatu–Loyalty Outliers
- Emae
- Mele–Futuna
- Futuna–Aniwa
- Mele–Fila
- West Uvean
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References
{{Reflist}}
{{Polynesian languages}}
{{Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages}}