Yet they're all among the most recognizable symbols of a Hawaiian ... also the latest sign of a Native Hawaiian renaissance with more locals studying Hawaiian language, reviving traditional ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Punana Leo language-immersion school in Lahaina, the historic former capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, stood for decades as a gleaming symbol of the fight to stop Hawaiian ...

a symbol of the islands’ sovereignty movement, flies at Mauna Kea, a volcano on the island of Hawaii. Fifty years into the islands’ cultural renaissance, language plays a central role.

Once the missionaries arrived in 1820, they pushed for Hawaiians to learn how to read, write and create a written language for Hawaiian. Since then and with the assistance of the University of ...

In the Hawaiian language, the okina is a symbol that represents a glottal stop. The symbol is commonly used in Hawaiian words and is found in other Polynesian languages as well under different names.

There are many words for rainbows in the Hawaiian language. A new paper explains ... “In Hawaiian mythology the rainbow is a symbol of transformation and a pathway between dimensions, as it ...

The revival of the Hawaiian language, which was at one point nearly extinct, is now being used as a model for how other indigenous languages can be revitalized. https ...