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  2. Hawaiian language - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of English words of Hawaiian origin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian language (or ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) was once the language of native Hawaiian people; today, Kānaka Maoli predominantly speak English. A major factor for this change was an 1896 law that required that English "be the only medium and basis of instruction in all public and private schools". This law excluded the Hawaiian language from ...

  5. Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono - Wikipedia

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    Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈuə ˈmɐw ke ˈɛə o kə ˈʔaːi.nə i kə ˈpo.no]) is a Hawaiian phrase, spoken by Kamehameha III, and adopted in 1959 as the state motto. [1] It is most commonly translated as "the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness."

  6. Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian language has about 2,000 native speakers, about 0.15% of the total population. [191] According to the United States Census, there were more than 24,000 total speakers of the language in Hawaii in 2006–2008. [192] Hawaiian is a Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family. [191]

  7. Hawaiian - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian may refer to: Native Hawaiians, the current term for the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants; Hawaii state residents, regardless of ancestry (only used outside of Hawaii) Hawaiian language, a Polynesian language originally spoken on the eight major islands of the Hawaiian archipelago

  8. Haole - Wikipedia

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    Among Hawaiian residents who have descended from various ethnic groups who worked on the plantations (often known as "locals"), "haole" is a term used to describe people of European ancestry. [11] The term itself can be merely descriptive, but it can be used in a way that is pejorative or discriminatory.

  9. Hawaiian Pidgin - Wikipedia

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    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.