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Havaii is one of a half dozen or so variant spellings of Hawaii that can be found across all three points of Polynesia. Havaii or Hawai'i refers to the ancient name for both Ra'iatea and Fakarava, both in French Polynesia. Common to all monarchial systems, island names changed by royal order or common assent, according to historic events.
Where the English and Hawaiian names are the same or very nearly the same, but the English and Hawaiian spellings differ, use the English spelling. Example 1: Hawaii, not Hawaiʻi. Example 2: Lihue, not Līhuʻe. Where the English and Irish names are different, and the English name remains the predominant usage in English, use the English name.
The exact spelling of the state's name in the Hawaiian language is ... Hispanic and Latino Americans live in Hawaii. Mexican Americans number over 35,000 (2.6% ...
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 island of Maui has the most residents at 117,644 (76% of the county's population). It is also the largest of the county's islands with 727.2 sq mi (1,883 km 2) of land—the state's second largest island and the 17th largest in the country. At 44.6 sq mi (116 km 2), Kahoʻolawe is the state's largest island with no permanent inhabitants ...
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.
Horrifying video captured a plane crashing into a building in Hawaii during a training flight — with a pilot telling the control tower: “We’re out of control here.” The two people on board ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2). 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km 2) of it (40.65%) is water. The coastline is marked by Lāʻie Point, a prominent lithified dune jutting out into the ocean.