The Samoic languages are a purported group of the Polynesian languages spoken in Samoa, Tuvalu, American Samoa, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and the Federated States of Micronesia. The name Samoic-Outlier recognizes Samoan.
According to Ethnologue 26, the SamoicâÂÂOutlier languages are as follows:
Hammarström et al. do not view the SamoicâÂÂOutlier languages as a valid phylogenetic clade. As such, the languages classified as SamoicâÂÂOutlier languages in Ethnologue are classified in the Glottolog database within Nuclear Polynesian as follows: