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It was a privately funded Hawaiian preschool program that invited native Hawaiian elders to speak to children in Hawaiian every day. [57] Efforts to promote the language have increased in recent decades. Hawaiian-language "immersion" schools are now open to children whose families want to reintroduce the Hawaiian language for future generations ...
Hawaiian language (5 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Indigenous languages of Hawaii" This category contains only the following page.
This system was used by the native Hawaiians to preserve more oral literature in native-language writing than almost any other colonized indigenous people. [11] Moʻolelo were written down and published in Hawaiian-language newspapers such as Ke Kumu Hawaii and Ka Nonanona as literacy in the written Hawaiian language became widespread. [12]
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 ...
Feb. 12—In recognition of Hawaiian Language Month, the U.S. Department of the Interior earlier this month announced new guidance on its use of the Hawaiian language. In recognition of Hawaiian ...
Niʻihau dialect (Standard Hawaiian: ʻŌlelo Niʻihau, Niʻihau: Olelo Matuahine, lit. 'mother tongue') is a dialect of the Hawaiian language spoken on the island of Niʻihau, more specifically in its only settlement Puʻuwai, and on the island of Kauaʻi, specifically near Kekaha, where descendants of families from Niʻihau now live.
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.
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