In brief
The largest documented number lives in American Samoa: 41,382 people in the 2020 census.
Main language: Samoan. Glottolog classifies it in the Austronesian family.
Where they live: census figures
Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.
American Samoa
41,382
Languages and their lineage
Samoan
- Austronesianaust1307
- Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
- Eastern Malayo-Polynesianeast2712
- Oceanicocea1241
- Central Pacific linkagecent2060
- Tokalau Fijianeast2445
- Polynesianpoly1242
- Nuclear Polynesiannucl1485
- Elliceanelli1239
- Pukapukicpuka1245
- Samoan-Tokelauansamo1310
- Samoansamo1305
English
- Indo-Europeanindo1319
- Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
- Germanicgerm1287
- Northwest Germanicnort3152
- West Germanicwest2793
- North Sea Germanicnort3175
- Anglo-Frisianangl1264
- Anglicangl1265
- Later Angliclate1254
- Middle-Modern Englishmerc1242
- Macro-Englishmacr1271
- Englishstan1293
People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.
Peoples of the same language family
Sources
- United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. American Samoa, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
- Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)