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The Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North
Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii. King
Kamehameha III established the first Hawaiian-language constitution in 1839 and 1840. For various reasons, including Territorial
legislation establishing English as the official language in schools, the number of native speakers of Hawaiian gradually
decreased during the period from the 1830s to the 1950s. Hawaiian was essentially displaced by English on six of seven inhabited
islands. As of 2001, native speakers of Hawaiian amounted to under 0.1% of the statewide population. Linguists are worried
about the fate of this and other endangered languages. Nevertheless, from about 1949 to the present, there has been a gradual
increase in attention to, and promotion of, the language. Public Hawaiian-language immersion preschools called Pūnana Leo
were started in 1984; other immersion schools followed soon after. The first students to start in immersion preschool have
now graduated from college and many are fluent Hawaiian speakers. The federal government acknowledged this development. For
example the Hawaiian National Park Language Correction Act of 2000 changed the names of several national parks in Hawaiʻi
observing the Hawaiian spelling. A pidgin or creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi is Hawaiian Pidgin (or Hawaii Creole English,
HCE). It should not be mistaken for the Hawaiian language nor for a dialect of English. The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters,
five vowels (long and short) and eight consonants, one of them being a glottal stop (called okina in Hawaiian). |
Names (more)[af] Hawaies[am] ሃዊያኛ [ar] لغة أهل الهاواي [az] Qavayca [bn] হাওয়াইয়ান [bs] havajski [br] Hawaieg [bg] Хавайски език [ca] Hawaià [cs] Havajština [cy] Hawäieg [da] Hawaiiansk [de] Hawaiisch [dz] ཧ་ཝ་ཡིའི་ཁ [el] Χαβανεζικά [en] Hawaiian language [eo] Havaja lingvo [et] havai [eu] Hawaiera [ee] hawaigbe [fo] Hawaiianskt mál [fa] هاوائیایی [fi] Havaijin kieli [fr] Hawaïen [fy] Hawajaansk [ga] Haváíais [gl] Lingua hawaiana [gv] Hawaiish [gu] હાવાઇયન [he] הוואית [hi] हावाइयन [hr] Havajski jezik [hu] Hawaii nyelv [id] Bahasa Hawaii [is] Hawaiíska [it] Lingua hawaiiana [ja] ハワイ語 [kn] ಹವಾಯಿಯನ್ [ks] ہوایِیَن [kk] Гавай [km] ហាវៃ [ko] 하와이어 [ku] Zuwani hawaíyane [lo] ຮາໄວອຽນ [lv] Havajiešu valoda [li] Hawaiïaans [lt] Havajiečių kalba [ml] ഹവായിയൻ [mr] हवाईयन [mk] Хавајски јазик [mt] Ħawajjan [ms] Bahasa Hawaii [my] ဟာဝေယံ [ne] हवाइयन [nl] Hawaïaans [nn] hawaiisk [nb] hawaiisk [no] Hawaiisk [oc] Hawaiian [or] ହାୱାଇନ୍ [pl] Język hawajski [pt] Língua havaiana [qu] Hawayi simi [rm] hawaian [ro] Limba hawaiiană [ru] Гавайский язык [si] හවායි [sk] Havajčina [sl] Havajščina [se] hawaiigiella [sm] Gagana fa'a Hawai'i [es] Idioma hawaiano [sr] Хавајски језик [sv] Hawaiiska [ta] ஹவாய் மொழி [te] హవాయియన్ [tl] Wikang Hawayano [th] ฮาวาย [to] lea fakahauaiʻi [tr] Hawaii Dili [uk] Гавайська мова [ur] ہوائی کا باشندہ [vi] Tiếng Hawaii [zh] 夏威夷语 [zu] IsiHawayi |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Hawaiian. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-2B : hawISO 639-2T : haw ISO 639-3 : haw Linked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hawhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:haw http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/haw More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: hawFreebase ISO 639-3 : haw GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |