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Mi gonna surprise my family back home in Hawai’i that I have learned a few words . Need to visit from NY TO HAWAII ❤👉🏾Simeona “

Tuvalu Alelo=tongue Leo=voice Te gana Tuvalu=Tuvalu language Leo Tuvalu=Tuvalu voice

Make anykine reminds me of the word “kapakahi” too. Or kanikaplia for jamming. Sometimes the Hawaiian word is the root of the pidgin slang also.

Aloha Kumu. What about the word lanai? It can be a porch and it can be the island. With the kahako and okina, it's the ISLAND. Without the kahako and the okina it's a PORCH. Please help. Mahalo.

Mahalo!!! Thank you so much for your videos !!!

And there are many other layers of understanding in Hawaiian language. ❤

So similar to my language, pe'ea koe? Is how are you?

i want to learn hawaiian..im from cook islands and my ancestor name is hawaiian her name is tuhilani

Do you teach online olelo classes?

Amazing Amazing 😅

How will people learn from books when the last native Hawaiian speaker will have died? Of course best will be to learn from audio or video to train your ear, but what about people who learn by reading? I think youʻre very wrong about stripping the diacritics. Youʻre not helping people who want to learn how to pronounce Hawaiian words properly without the help of someone who would pronounce them. First off, itʻs not Waimea but "Vaimea". About Laila/Lila, same can be transposed in English, weʻll never have a teacher teach that itʻs Vetchtable and not Ve-ge-table. The Phonetics writing system does it. You can use phonetics to write Laila spoken as Lila. Take a 95-year-old Hawaiian speaker (if they still exist), and give him a sentence from one of those old newspapers without the context and heʻll be lost. Put the diacritics on and we get more meaning and more accurate pronunciation out of it. The ʻokina and kahakō is indeed an incomplete system to represent the oral language ; Yet it is far more precise than to not use them. Also, itʻs not because diacritics do not render the full picture of the Hawaiian oral language that we should stop using them. Donʻt think people will get closer to a "true" Hawaiian oral language by learning from the old newspapers just because they donʻt carry diacritics, or that the old people who donʻt use diacritics in the written language but still speak it as their first language should be an example for non-native speakers to learn the language better without diacritics. The good thing about these old newspapers is that they were written by fluent speakers, therefore carrying richness in terms, idioms, play on words, sayings, etc., but crucially fail to disambiguate words when taken out of context. Students will learn more vocabulary and more idioms for sure, but will lag in pronouncing terms properly. That is why UH embarked on the difficult task of placing diacritics on many of those old newspapers as sometimes "bare" words remain open to interpretation and may have received a diacritical mark or may have not. As to how Hawaiian words are pronounced, an accent evolves with time. The Hawaiian accent born from the Marquesas migrations was transformed over the centuries as people mixed. So, when youʻre telling people this is how a Hawaiian word should be pronounced, youʻre actually saying "this is how most people used to pronounce it before the language lost its steam". I think youʻre confusing your students by saying that learning without diacritics by going into the old papers will have them learn more about the language when in fact, itʻs the fluency and richness of the language that will make them learn more. And yes, they will learn even more if these old newspapers have been enhanced by the diacritics. Finally, diacritics make it easier for speakers of another "Polynesian" language to learn Hawaiian because they can trace it back to cognates that they know of, like ʻua/kua ; hōu/foʻou ; maikaʻi/maitaki etc). Just like tone markers in the Tongan language make it easier for people to learn the language, as opposed to not using them. Man, I like your videos very much, Iʻve seen many of them, you do a great job every time, but on this topic I think youʻre on the wrong path, e hoa. Me ke aloha pono iā ʻoe.

Youʻre pronouncing ʻīʻa when it is iʻa.

Mahalo for this! I think you could make an argument for using diacritics on street signs and maps too. Would help folks with pronunciation when they aren't familiar with a place, and help preserve the integrity of our inoa aina. They could also be used stylistically in things like poetry to emphasize certain aspects of pronunciation. One small thing, the ipa was designed to describe all the sounds in all the world's languages, not just english!

Another great video! Really appreciated the part about other sounds such as “ma leila/lila” and the reduction of the ‘a’ in Waimea. I’ve been trying to get accustomed to these types of pronunciations through listening to resources like the Clinton Kanahele tapes. I also noticed others like maika’i often becoming ‘meike’i’ and wau almost becoming 'wou.' I’d love a video going deeper into some of these patterns and where/when they commonly occur.

I think for native speakers or 2nd language speakers that have been around native speakers, they feel out of place because their olelo can seem to others as grammatically incorrect when thats how they heard and say it. So your manao is pono, new speakers need to speak and not be shame to olelo, because olelo is making a comeback and i appreciate kakou a pau even malihini taking time to learn and apply it to their ola. I was in the store the other day and this kepani wahine olelo mai, "E kala mai" and i had to do a double take 👀👀 had to make sure the olelo was coming from her 😂😂😂😂 but I mahalo her for speaking my olelo Kupuna. so e na kanaka me na poe olelo hawaii, E olelo MAU! MAU ana kakou 🤙🏽🤙🏽

Ola mau ka olelo Kupuna ✊❤️

I always struggled with using okina and kahako when writing olelo Hawaii growing up. Now I am making the conscious effort not to use them because my ohana is from Niihau, and the Niihau dialect has never used okina or kahako. My dad made the decision when he started studying olelo Hawaii again, and he inspired me to do the same. Now my dad and I text each other in Hawaiian sometimes like this... occasionally if I text others they'll point out a "missing" okina or kahako, but usually they don't mind. If they _do_ find fault with it, it gives me a really wonderful opportunity to share more about the dialect my kupuna have used, and the difference between native speakers and "university" speakers.

That last point about it being faster to write and text, I totally feel that lmao. I kaʻu kakau ana, aohe kahako a okina, no ka mea, loihi ke kakau lima. Moloa au. Aka, ina e ao aku, loaa ke kahako me okina. The only times where apostrophe are absolutely necessary are with the possessive 'my' and 'I/me' words. Otherwise, no need. Mahalo nui loa iaoe nau hana maikai!

Top-notch production! I engage with mostly mainland ukulele people who say "you-ka-lay-lee" so I try to use the okina when possible to remind them that I intend the Hawaiian pronunciation. Otherwise, even at my low level olelo I tend to omit, if only to annoy the institution people! 🙂 FWIW, I get smashed sports announcer vibes from your vocal processing. Maybe less compressor/limiter next time? 🤙

Mahalo no kou manao Palala.

Omitting those 2 letters is no big deal for manaleo, when the rest catch up they can do the same. Going further the use of the English alphabet standardizing the Polynesian languages is a kerfuffle with wh = f/ nga = g/ w = ua. Uahine, Wahine, Vahine. Spell it according to how you speak it. If I want to say Ka Uai/Ka Wai over Ka Vai then spell it accordingly for the benefit of the reader, I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill

Kakoo! moloa wau e kakau ia mau mea😂

Maika'i and Mahalo nui loa for sharing the right way of pronouncing our language. I appreciate it.

Mahalo nui

😂🤣

Crystal always cracks 😂me up.

‘Okina between A and O I thought yea? I know you say one word many meanings. Is it different with ‘ vs no?

I kuu wa kamalii lohe no wau I na kupuna..."Aikapepea?"

Mahalo ia olua no keia wikio maika'i! :)

Ae pololei moloa no makou😂😂😂

Ae pololei, i kuu wa kamalii, ua hoolono no wau i ka olelo hawaii ma ka hale me ka halepule. O ko'u tutu ke Kahu o kela halepule o kela manawa. Ka hoomana ma ka olelo wale no. Loa na pauku😂😂 me na pule i na la apau. Mahalo Iesū🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽ke alii o na alii a me ka haku o na haku 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 A hiki i ia manawa ke hoomanao i kuu wa kamalii. I really miss the pillars of our family, although weve spoken english in our household I grew up with my kupuna and ohana who could only express. When i took olelo in high school the kumu was astounded by my vocabulary. I didnt know how much i actually knew prior. I thought everyone was hawaiian 😂😂😂😂

"Kekahi po'e onoloa lakou I Ka paakai" 💀😂😂😂 soiu ma na mea a pau 😂😂😂😂

Hoomanao I Ka pauku 🙏🏽

mayjah

Kauakinikini❤❤❤

Ha'i au I ka'u keiki " Mai namunamu!!" 😂😂

Ae pololei he mea iki, He mea li'ili'i, he mea ole

Mahalos for the lessons my man! Keep um up and I love that you’re sharing this with the world! You never know who’s hearts it’ll touch

Mahalo no keia mau wikio, ke aloha nui 🤙

Aloha no ia olua no keia kukakuka. i keia manawa au e "normalize" ana i ka olelo Hawaii ma Kaleponi. If I am at the supermarket, I talk a little Hawaiian, if I go to a coffee shop, I order in Hawaiian. I explain why, and without fail, I receive encouragement and "we love hearing the language". I chant at the beach, and before hiking, and without fail, it is treated as okay and normal where life has planted me on the west coast of turtle island. People love seeing peoples take their ancestral tongues back. After I become fluent in Hawaiian (my goal) I want to return to studying my motherʻs first language.

Kia Ora from Te Puna, Tauranga Moana. Aotearoa. Hearing the similarities in our reo (language) is very heartwarming and interesting 😊 much love whanau!!! ❤️💛💚

'O Rumble ma ka www 🤙

Mahalo nui! He haumāna au i ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, hilahila wau. xD When I learned ʻukulele, we had an amazing group. You could completely bomb a song, start over from the beginning, whatevah, and you'd get a standing ovation and huge congratulations for trying. Learned SO FAST because no shame at all. The world needs more kanikapila! Can sing anything in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, ʻukulele is my shield. But speaking feels harder.

Hyfryd ac ysbrydoledig i weld y pobloedd cynhenid yn ymgryfhau. Yn siarad ei ieithoedd, yn ymladd dros eu hunaniaeth. Pob nerth i chi gen i fel siaradwr Cymraeg o Gymru. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊

Mahalo nui i kēia mana’o 🙏🏽 (5:20)

Mamake wau e kukakuka i olelo hawaii me kuu hoaaloha aka aole olelo hawaii lakou, ua manao wau, pono au i hele i ke kula nui and take hawaiian language a hawaiian history paha to try and find a olelo community, would you recommend?

As someone whose family comes from Guam and is also trying to revive the CHamoru language, respectively, the doctor comes off as defensive which is not necessary. Yes he is very intelligent and has unique insight. The interviewer asked him about new words or words that weren't used by great grandparents- this is common even in English and any other language. No need to get defensive or say you're just creating new words. You can explain, especially being an educator how language evolves over time no matter the language, instead of being defensive as if the language is being colonized. For example, in the CHamoru (Guam) language, my grandparents who were born in the 40's, taught me when you ask a question 'can you?' in CHamoru, you start the sentence with Ko sina hao? I later learned that this newer generation says kao sina hao. When I use the word ko instead of kao as a 30 something year old people can almost distinguish my CHamoru as being old school. language evolves over time with influence from other languages due to travel and intercultural influence. In CHamoru when you ask Hafa peyedu-mu? is very closely similar to spanish que es tu apellido (What is your last name?) Dr. NeSmith would do himself justice by explaining from an educators point of view that language overtime can evolve due to strong influences from languages be it English, Tagalog, Mandarin, Spanish etc. Instead he comes across as if he had to defend his language and he is almost has to defend the real words from modern day Hawaiian to what they used in the 20th century. Yes preserve the language, yes it might change or evolve and also this is educational. Just like the English used today is probably not the same English used in the 1920's

I close my eyes and sounds like my elders speaking at functions. I understood this dialect like it the dialects I grew up hearing. Closest dialects to cookislands maori. Mahalo Kanaka Maoli for this olelo niihau.

Mahalo nui mai Cymru. Parch mawr o Gymru. E hiki mai ana ka la e nui ai ka poe liilii Daw dydd y bydd mawr y rhai bychain.

I ran the writing program at the 2004 FestPAC in Palau. For anyone interested in the culture of the Pacific, attending a FestPAC is the best thing one can do. The Solomon islands panpipers were amazing.