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  2. Hawaiian name - Wikipedia

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    In births registered on Oʻahu 2001–2002, about 25% of girls and 15% of boys received at least one Hawaiian name. Names with negative meaning have disappeared in this sample, and the unisex quality is waning. Many favorite names a hundred years ago, like Kealoha, Kalei, Leialoha, and Keonaona, were popular with both sexes.

  3. Hawaiian language - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian ( ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) [ 6] 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.

  4. 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. Haole is only one of several words ...

  5. List of English words of Hawaiian origin - Wikipedia

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    Intelligent, clever, smart. Hello, goodbye, and love; outside of Hawaiʻi, only the first two meanings are used. A Polynesian shrub, Piper methysticum, of the pepper family, the aromatic roots of which are used to make an intoxicating beverage. Foreigner or outsider.

  6. Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia

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    Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; Hawaiian: kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands . Hawaii was settled at least 800 years ago by Polynesians who sailed from the Society Islands.

  7. Hawaiian Pidgin - Wikipedia

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    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 it as a second language.

  8. Kealoha - Wikipedia

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    Kealoha. Kealoha is a name and surname of Hawaiian origin. It comes from the Hawaiian word ke, meaning "the," and aloha, meaning "love." Its cognate in the Māori language is Te Aroha, which is also used as a given name.

  9. Henry Opukahaia - Wikipedia

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    Henry ʻŌpūkahaʻia(c. 1792– 1818) was one of the first Native Hawaiiansto become a Christian, inspiring AmericanProtestantmissionaries to come to the islands during the 19th century. He is credited with starting Hawaii's conversion to Christianity. His name was usually spelled Obookiahduring his lifetime.