Hawaiian Eastern Polynesian Malayo Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics

'Olelo Hawai'i or the Hawaiian language is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family with approximately 1000 mother-tongue speakers and 8000 people who can speak and understand it. It is the sole native language of the Hawaiian islands and the legal equivalent of English in the State of Hawai`i. The links contained here will provide you with information about the language and pointers to Hawaiian materials for those who speak the language.

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• - Broad overview on technology and Hawaiian language revival.
  
• - Discussion of the meaning of hapa.
  
• - Brief history of the language programs and historical background behind the modern revival of the Hawaiian language.
  
• - "Wired" article on the role of technology in the Hawaiian language revival movement.
  
• - Collection of slightly "bent" Hawaiian phrases from Keola Beamer.
  
• - Course materials, literature and project websites used by the Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature at the University of Hawai`i in Manoa. Some pages are bilingual, many more are Hawaiian language only.
  
• - Brief ethnological summary of Hawaiian.
  
• - Mail group at "Yahoo! Groups" focused on increasing Hawaiian language learning through regular e-mail conversation.
  
• - Recounts one person's experiences while studying Hawaiian language and Hula with commentary on approaches to learning and the politics inherent in one's choices of vocabulary and pronunciation.
  
• - Hawaiian lessons, word lists, proverbs, song lyrics and links on language and other related topics.
  
• - Collection of Hawaiian Language computer and technology resources including fonts, input methods and localized web browser.
  
• - Brief tutorial on Hawaiian fonts, diacriticals and HTML escape entities for presenting Hawaiian language on the web.
  
• - Theses on Hawaiian Language at University of Hawai`i.
  
• - Collection of Hawai`i-related links including a "Words" section containing substantial English-Hawaiian, Hawaiian-English, phrase and numbers lists.
  
• - Translations between English and Hawaiian given names. Site utility impacted by popup windows.
  
• - Library of Hawaiian language materials including an online edition of the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian language dictionary, nineteenth century newspaper archives, the "Baibala Hemolele" and "Ka Ho`oilina", a journal of Hawaiian language r
  
• - Descriptions of services, contact information, office locations and branch operating hours. Hawaiian language materials are available for both children and adults.
  
• - Commercial products for Hawaiian language publishing, education and reference.
  
• - Extensive archive of Hawaiian songs with side-by-side translations into English.
  
• - Style guide for university publications. Of particular note is the section on proper Hawaiian language orthography.
  
• - Hawaiian vocabulary with Japanese language equivalents.
  
• - Instructions for transforming names into Hawaiian with transliteration table for common English names.
  
• - Discusses the role of the Leokï bulletin board system in Hawaiian language revitalization.
  
• - A brief description of the Hawaiian Language.
  
• - Brief explanation of articles, possessives, pronouns, prepositions and numbers in Hawaiian.
  
  

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