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Hawai‘ian is a member of the Austronesian language family, related to Smoan, Mori, Fijian, and other languages spoken throughout Polynesia, and more distantly to some Southeast AsianSoutheast Asia is a subregion of Asia. It includes all of the following territories: Brunei Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar (Burma) Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam Southeast Asia has an area of 1. 6 million sq miles (4,000,000 k and Indian OceanThe Indian Ocean is the third-largest body of water in the world, covering about 20% of the Earth's water surface. It is bounded on the north by southern Asia (the Indian Sub-continent); on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the languages.
Hawaiian is an endangered languageAn endangered language is a language with so few surviving speakers that it is in danger of falling out of use. For example, many Native American languages in the United States became extinct through policies in the 19th and early 20th centuries discourag. On most of the islands, Hawaiian has been displaced by English and is no longer used as the daily language of communicationCommunication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. Communication" is the academic discipline which studies communication. Forms of communication Animal communications Interpersonal communications Marketing Propa. An exception is Ni‘ihauNi‘ihau at 70 sq. miles (182 sq. km), is the smallest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the US State of Hawai‘i. The island's dimensions are 30 km by 10 km (6. 6 mi; 50% larger than uninhabited Kaho‘olawe). The maxium elevation (Paniau) is 390 m (1280 which still uses Hawaiian in daily communications, because it is a privately owned island and visitation by outsiders is strictly controlled. For a variety of reasons starting around 19001900 is the common year starting on Monday. see link for calendar) For the film, see 1900 (film). Events January January 1 Nigeria becomes British protectorate January 2 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 Chicag, the number of first-language speakers of Hawaiian diminished from 37,000 to 1,000; half of these remaining are now in their seventies or eighties (see Ethnologue report below for citations).
Efforts by Native Hawaiians to revive their ancestral language have increased in recent decades. Hawaiian language "immersion" schools are now open to children whose families want to retain (or reintroduce) Hawaiian language back into the next generation. The local NPR station features a short segment titled "Hawaiian word of the day".
Those learning Hawaiian as a second language, without Native Hawaiian speakers as constant models, have a tendency to pronounce Hawaiian words as spelled, with English values for the letters, and to use English word order in sentences. There is also a certain tension between those who would revive a purist Hawaiian, as spoken in the early 19th century, and those who grew up speaking a colloquial Hawaiian shaped by more than one hundred years of contact with English and pidgin.
Hawaiian Pidgin (also known as Hawaiian Creole) is a local form of English with borrowings from Hawaiian and Asian languages -- predominantly Japanese and Chinese introduced by immigrants hired to work at sugar and pineapple plantations.The ISO language code for Hawaiian is haw.