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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.
Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0209-8. Philip Babcock Gove, Noah Webster, ed. (1976). Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language. Merriam G. & C. ISBN 0-87779-103-1
As such, it appears to be unique among English dialects, at least in its centrality to everyday speech. "Da kine" is probably the most identifying characteristic of spoken Hawaiian Pidgin, and certainly the most versatile. [2] The humorous illustrated dictionary Pidgin to Da Max defines "da kine" as: "the keystone of pidgin. You can use it ...
A form of pigeon English, mixed with select words from other dialects, creates the uniquely Hawaiian shorthand known as Pidgin. Found. Getty Images The Garden Isle of Kauai, and for that matter ...
Pidgin Hawaiian (or Hawaii Plantation Pidgin [1]) is a pidgin spoken in Hawaii, which draws most of its vocabulary from the Hawaiian language and could have been influenced by other pidgins of the Pacific Ocean region, such as Maritime Polynesian Pidgin.
There is an additional volume, titled Pidgin to Da Max: Hana Hou, which follows the first book. As an example of an entry for which the dictionary may be of little help to outsiders, consider the definition of the word da kine: Da kine (da KINE) Da kine is the keystone of pidgin. You can use it anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles . English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following:
Lee A. Tonouchi (born circa 1972) is a Hawaii-born writer and editor, who calls himself "Da Pidgin Guerilla" because of his strong advocacy of the Hawaiian Pidgin language. Tonouchi graduated from Aiea High School in 1990. He promotes the idea that Hawaiian Pidgin is an appropriate language for both creative and academic writing. [1]