The 2024 theme for Samoa Language Week is 'Tautua i le alofa, manuia le lumana’i – Serve in love for a blessed future'.

What does the phrase ‘Tautua i le alofa’ mean? The concept of tautua focuses on the phrase “serve in love”. Love is the driving force of service. No matter what service looks like or who is doing it, service is accomplished through the power of love.

Gagana Samoa has about 470,000 speakers around the world, and it is the third most widely spoken language here in Aotearoa, behind English and te reo Māori. We have more than 100,000 speakers!

For a primer on Gagana Samoa, have a look at the language cards created by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples.