Talofa (original) (raw)

Talofa is a salutation or greeting in the Samoan language of the Samoan Islands. Talofa echoes in such phrases as ta'alofa in Tuvalu, aloha in Hawaiian and in Cook Islands Māori. Another Samoan salutation To life, live long! properly translated Ia ola! also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is .