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Linguasphere. 52-ABB-dc. External audio. There is a video of Hawaiian Pidgin English on this news report HERE. 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 ...
Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi Pidgin Sign Language, [ 2 ] is an indigenous sign language native to Hawaiʻi. Historical records document its presence on the islands as early as the 1820s, but HSL was not ...
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. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of ...
Da Kine Bail Bonds is a Honolulu, Hawaii -based bail bonds company owned by Duane "Dog" Chapman, the title character in the A&E reality TV series Dog the Bounty Hunter. [9] "Da Kine" is cited as the callsign meaning of KINE-FM 105.1, a Honolulu -based Hawaiian music radio station. "Da Kine" is a song from the 1999 album Shaka the Moon by ...
The Old Sugar Mill, established in 1835 by Ladd & Co., is the site of the first sugar plantation. In 1836 the first 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of sugar and molasses was shipped to the United States. [ 1 ] The plantation town of Koloa, was established adjacent to the mill. By the 1840s sugarcane plantations gained a foothold in Hawaiian agriculture.
Shaka sign. The shaka sign, sometimes known as " hang loose " is a gesture with friendly intent often associated with Hawaii and surf culture. It consists of extending the thumb and smallest finger while holding the three middle fingers curled, and gesturing in salutation while presenting the front or back of the hand; the wrist may be rotated ...
Japanese Pidgin English. Japanese Pidgin English is any of several English -based pidgins spoken or influenced by the Japanese. Cape York Japanese Pidgin English, spoken in the pearling area at Thursday Island. Hawaiian Pidgin English, which began as a pidgin jargon spoken by immigrant plantation workers in Hawaii.
Kanae is a recipient of the 2009 Cades Award for Literature for Emerging Writers. [ 5 ] Kanae was an editor for Hawaiʻi Review[ 6 ] and an editorial assistant for ‘Ōiwi. [ 7 ] She is best known for being a Hawaiʻi author that writes in Pidgin, [ 8 ] but has also tried her hand at spoken-word poetry, too. [ 9 ]