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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.
English also borrows some Hawaiian words (e.g. ukulele, mahimahi, and muʻumuʻu). Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special ...
Proto-Polynesian language – the reconstructed ancestral language from which modern Polynesian languages are derived. ʻOkina – a glyph shaped like (but distinct from) an apostrophe: used to represent the glottal-stop consonant in some Polynesian Latin-based scripts. Rongorongo – the undeciphered script of Easter Island .
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.
Words from Hawaiian and Māori are listed separately at List of English words of Hawaiian origin and List of English words of Māori origin respectively. Kava An intoxicating drink made from plant roots. From Tongan. Mai Tai An alcoholic drink made from rum, curaçao, lime juice, orgeat syrup, and simple syrup.
The Hawaiian language has about 2,000 native speakers, about 0.15% of the total population. [191] According to the United States Census, there were more than 24,000 total speakers of the language in Hawaii in 2006–2008. [192] Hawaiian is a Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family. [191]
Hawaiian may refer to: Native Hawaiians, the current term for the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants; Hawaii state residents, regardless of ancestry (only used outside of Hawaii) Hawaiian language, a Polynesian language originally spoken on the eight major islands of the Hawaiian archipelago
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] In the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, there was a concerted effort to write down and preserve aspects of Hawaiian tradition including moʻolelo. [13]