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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.
However, word order is flexible, and the emphatic word can be placed first in the sentence. [1]: p28 Hawaiian largely avoids subordinate clauses, [1]: p.27 and often uses a possessive construction instead. [1]: p.41 Hawaiian, unlike English, is a pro-drop language, meaning pronouns may be omitted when the meaning is clear from context.
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.
The phonological system of the Hawaiian language is based on documentation from those who developed the Hawaiian alphabet during the 1820s as well as scholarly research conducted by lexicographers and linguists from 1949 to present. Hawaiian has only eight consonant phonemes: /p, k ⁓ t, ʔ, h, m, n, l ⁓ ɾ, w ⁓ v/.
7 comments Toggle Questions related to Hawaiian language (see also Glottal section below) subsection 1.1 Miscellaneous questions 1.2 Wikipedia:Babel Templates for Hawaiian
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Hawaiian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
Orthography refers to the correct spelling of a language. [1] The Hawaiian language uses two special diacritic marks in its orthography not used in English. The kahakō is the Hawaiian term for the macron, a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. It is written as a raised horizontal line ...
The Hawaiian language has about 2,000 native speakers, about 0.15% of the total population. [192] According to the United States Census, there were more than 24,000 total speakers of the language in Hawaii in 2006–2008. [193] Hawaiian is a Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family. [192]