Four Hawaiian language autobiographies

• Autores: Iokepa Maka'Ai, James Kaleiokalani Shintani, Jason Cabral, Keli'Ihoalani Kamanā Wilson
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 132, 1998, págs. 115-122
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hawaiian has four very different categories offluent Speakers: eiders who themselves were the last to use their language, those from Ni'ihau who escaped the language lossfound everywhere eise in Hawaii, fluent secondlanguage Speakers who areproducts ofadvanced training, and children who have been raised from an early age speaking Hawaiian in communities associated with Hawaiian-medium schools. The history of Hawaiian being used interethnically has resulted in cases of non-Hawaiian Speakers in all four categories at different periods. The language autobiographies here reflect this diversity. All were originally written in Hawaiian and translated into English by William H. Wilson of the University of Hawaii at Hilo.