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Learn about the history, origin, and status of Hawaiian, a critically endangered Polynesian language of the Austronesian family. Find out how Hawaiian is related to other languages, how it is written and spoken, and how it is used in Hawaii and beyond.
- Hawaiische Sprache
Die hawaiische oder hawaiianische Sprache ist die Sprache...
- Hawaiian phonology
The phonological system of the Hawaiian language is based on...
- Hawaiian Pidgin
Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE,...
- Hawaiische Sprache
Die hawaiische oder hawaiianische Sprache ist die Sprache der polynesischen Ureinwohner der Hawaii-Inseln, den Kānaka Maoli. Hawaiisch und Englisch sind die Amtssprachen des US-Bundesstaats Hawaii. Hawaiisch weist mit 13 Phonemen sehr wenige bedeutungsunterscheidende Laute auf; nur wenige Sprachen haben noch weniger. Zum Vergleich ...
- Related Languages
- Letters
- Dialects
- Syllables
- Learning
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There are related languages in the Marquesas, Raratonga, Samoa, some islands of what is now Fiji and New Zealand. Their languages have changed a lot over the last two thousand years or so. However, native speakers of all these languages can still understand each other.
The language has only 12 letters (A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U, W). There are 13 if you count the ʻokina. The ʻokina is a real letter and came from some "K" sounds in old Polynesian languages. The ʻokina is pronounced as a glottal stop, like the break in the middle of the word "Uh-oh". The ʻokina is written as a backward apostrophe (small numera...
The Niʻihau dialectstill uses some T, S, R and "hints" of B sounds. People who live on that island are the only people who still speak Hawaiian only and their dialect is the truest to its roots.
Every Hawaiian syllable ends with a vowel. There are some who think that makes the language sound "musical". Some think that final vowels helped the speakers remember chanted traditional stories and genealogies. Most linguists, however, think it is because of internal phonological processes. There are two forms of each of the five vowels. One is re...
One might think that learning the language would be relatively easy, but that only applies to na keiki (children) who have never learned the 26 letters that English speakers use. There is a children's rhyme that goes on for a couple of minutes (and written, probably a couple dozen lines) that consists of nothing but both versions of the letters a, ...
Learn about the history, features and status of the Hawaiian language, the native language of native Hawaiians. Find out how to write, pronounce and understand the 12 letters, ʻ okina, kahako and syllables of Hawaiian.
Die hawaiische oder hawaiianische Sprache (Eigenbezeichnung ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) ist die Sprache der polynesischen Ureinwohner der Hawaii-Inseln, den Kānaka Maoli. Hawaiisch und Englisch sind die Amtssprachen des US-Bundesstaats Hawaii.
Learn about the history, writing system and sample text of Hawaiian, an Austronesian language spoken by about 8,000 people on the Hawaiian islands. Find links to online resources, dictionaries and lessons for learning Hawaiian.
Learn about the consonant and vowel phonemes, syllable structure, and phonological processes of the Hawaiian language. Find out how Hawaiian has only eight consonants, no distinction between [t] and [k], and various types of vowel length and diphthongs.
Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English -based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi.
