Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Both the ʻokina and kahakō are often omitted in English orthography. Due to the Hawaiian orthography's difference from English orthography, the pronunciation of the words differ. For example, the muʻumuʻu, traditionally a Hawaiian dress, is pronounced / ˈ m uː m uː / MOO-moo by many mainland (colloquial term for the Continental U.S ...
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".
Hawaiian Pidgin has been influenced by many different languages, including Portuguese, Hawaiian, American English, and Cantonese. [citation needed] As people of other backgrounds were brought in to work on the plantations, Hawaiian Pidgin acquired even more words from languages such as Japanese, Ilocano, Okinawan and Korean.
Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the US state of Hawaii. [ 7] King Kamehameha III established the first Hawaiian-language constitution in 1839 and 1840. In 1896, the Republic of Hawaii established English as the official language in schools. [ 8]
Aloha ( / əˈloʊhɑː / ə-LOH-hah, Hawaiian: [əˈlohə]) is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a greeting. [ 1][ 2] It has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians, for whom the term is used to define a force that holds together existence. [ 3][ 4] The word is ...
The traditional Hawaiian religion is a polytheistic animistic religion. Its beliefs encompass the presence of spirits in objects such as the waves and the sky. The Hawaiian religion believes in four gods; Kāne, Kanaloa, Kū, and Lono. Kāne is the God of creation, Kanaloa is the God of the ocean, Ku is the God of war and male pursuits, and ...
Words of Nahuatl origin have entered many European languages. Mainly they have done so via Spanish. Most words of Nahuatl origin end in a form of the Nahuatl "absolutive suffix" (-tl, -tli, or -li, or the Spanish adaptation -te), which marked unpossessed nouns. Achiote (definition) from āchiotl [aːˈt͡ʃiot͡ɬ] Atlatl (definition)
This category consists of Hawaiian words on the English Wikipedia. Therefore, the pages are written in English. Therefore, the pages are written in English. If you want to read articles in Hawaiian, visit the Hawaiian Wikipedia .