COLEGIO SANTA TERESA DE JESÚS

TEACHER´S NAME: Héctor Danilo Mariona Rivas.

SUBJECT: English

STUDENT´S NAME: Gerardo Antonio Pérez Ramírez

LIST NUMBER: 12

COURSE: Basic English 2

TOPIC: Endangered Language

SCORE: 35%

Due date: May 18th 2022

 HAWAIIAN
Country: United States (Hawaiian Islands)

Olelo Hawaii

The Hawaiian language or "Olelo Hawaii" is one of the oldest living languages in
the world. Since the western introduction to Hawaii in 1778, the number of fluent
Hawaiian speakers has dropped dramatically. Today, only about 1% of Hawaii's
inhabitants speak their native language.

The Hawaiian language has had a tumultuous history. There has been a
resurgence in the last thirty years. Many people are learning the language again.
Today, it is being taught in Hawaiian language schools, one can even go on to do a
degree in Hawaiian language at the University of Hawaii, Hilo.

History of Hawaiian Languege

Before the arrival by Captain Cook, Hawaiian was a language strictly oral, Cook
and their menfolk registered the Hawaiian language for the first time in 1778.
Immediately began to realize that this language was similar to the one that could
be found between the Maori and Tahitian.

When the missionaries arrived in Hawaii, they needed to convert the oral Hawaiian
language into a written language. They taught the Hawaiians to read this written
language so they could make the message of the Bible known.

The missionaries developed the "Hawaiian Alphabet," which consists of twelve

letters. Later, two punctuation marks were added, the "okina" and the "kahako".

The Forbidden Hawaiian Language

Hawaiian was the primary language in Hawaii for many years. After Hawaii
became a U.S. state in 1898, the language was officially banned in schools and
government. The use of the Hawaiian language was even banned in Kamehameha
schools (a system of schools reserved only for children of Hawaiian descent).
Is important highlighted that this forbidden of Hawaiian language was not made
against language in general. People were still had the right to speak Hawaiian
normally. In fact, thirteen diaries were printed in Hawaiian. The highlights were Ka
Lama in Hawaii and Ke Kumu Hawaii, which began in 1834 and Ka Nupepa Kuoka,
which lasted 66 years, from 1861 to 1927.

Resurrection of the Hawaiian Language

In 1978, the Hawaiian language was recognized as official language of state of

Hawaii. The immersions programs of the language started in 1989. Many students
are choosing to study Hawaiian as the language that can be choose in the collage.

Today, there are about 1,000 native Hawaiians who speak the language plus
nearly 8,000 people who can speak and understand the language fluently. The
number is far from the original; 500,000 native Hawaiians who spoke the Hawaiian
language during Captain Cook's time, but it is a good start in the task of
resurrecting a dying language. The numbers are constantly changing.

Hawaiian Language Structure

Hawaiian language consists of twelve letters: five vowels and seven consonants.
There is also the "okina" and "kahako"; these are punctuation marks that can
change the pronunciation of each word.

The Hawaiian alphabet is as follows:

A, E, I, O, U, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W.

The vowels are pronounced differently than in English.

A is pronounced "ah".

E is pronounced "eh"

I is pronounced "ii"

O is pronounced "oh

U is pronounced "uu"
 Personal Opinion

Hawaiian language today is an official language along with English in

the United States, it is a very old language which belongs to the
Polynesian languages.

This language is one of many that are in danger of extinction because

the people who speak it the most are dying and do not teach it properly
to the new generations so that this language remains among many
more generations, it is worth mentioning that another of the causes that
can cause its extinction is the disinterest of the younger populations to
learn this language.

Hawaiian is in a critical situation despite being an official language of

the country. Another cause is the widespread use of Hawaiian pidgin, a
non-official Creole language that mixes English and Hawaiian.

On the other hand, there is also the Hawaiian Sign Language for which
several projects have been initiated to teach this language so that it
can remain for much longer. For example:

More than 100 students have received a reminder from Lambrecht.

Since 2018, which has offered HSL classes to the public; first in person
and, since the covid-19 pandemic began, by Zoom.

Lambrecht isn't just teaching. She is fighting against oblivion,

globalization and the cruelty of time to keep an endangered sign
language alive, and with it, generations of history, heritage and
wisdom.