Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hawaiian (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) [7] is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
[5] Its use in Hawaii has a seriousness lacking in the Tahitian and Samoan meanings. [6] Mary Kawena Pukui wrote that the "first expression" of aloha was between a parent and child. [5] Lorrin Andrews wrote the first Hawaiian dictionary, called A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language. [7]
Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English-based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi.An estimated 600,000 residents of Hawaiʻi speak Hawaiian Pidgin natively and 400,000 speak it as a second language.
things and people of the Republic of Hawaii, the short period between the overthrow of the monarchy and U.S. annexation; things and people of the Territory of Hawaii, during the period the area was a U.S. territory from 1898 to 1959; things and people of the Sandwich Islands, the name used for the Hawaiian Islands around the end of the 18th century
The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...
The Hawaiian language revitalization inspired a number of policy reforms, including the designation of Native Hawaiian Language Month itself, as well as establishing the Native American Language ...
Use of the kahakō and ʻokina, as used in current standard Hawaiian orthography, is preferred in Hawaiian language words, names and usage in the body of articles dealing with Hawaii on the English Wikipedia. The online Hawaiian Dictionary or a similar reference work should be used as a guide for proper spelling.
English also borrows some Hawaiian words (e.g. ukulele, mahimahi, and muʻumuʻu). Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special ...