thumb|right|250px|1934 Sketch map showing the central position of the Samoa Islands in the Pacific. Linguistically, the Samoan language belongs to the Polynesian sub-branch of the Austronesian language family, which is thought by linguists to have originated in Taiwan.
thumb|right|250px|1934 Sketch map showing the central position of the Samoa Islands in the Pacific. Linguistically, !the Samoan language belongs to the Polynesian sub-branch of the Austronesian language family, which is thought by linguists to have originated in Taiwan.