This comprehensive, bilingual dictionary includes a guide to pronunciation, grammar and the language of courtesy, as well as a selection of Samoan proverbs.
Other lists give the Samoan translations of days of the week , seasons, months, points of the compass, continents, Countries, given names, numbers, measurements, common tools, parts of the body, medically related terms, colours, and telling the time.
First published in 1966, this dictionary was commissioned by the Governments of Western and American Samoa. A distinguished linguist, G.B.Milner has taken care to keep a proper balance between traditional and modern words and concepts. Oratory has been illustrated through proverbial sayings.
