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The earliest record of the greeting, Mele Kalikimaka, in print is from 1904, in the Hawaiian language newspaper Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, published between 1861 and 1927. [7] The phrase is derived from English as follows: Merry Christmas ↓ Every consonant must be followed by a vowel in Hawaiian. The T is removed, since it is already silent in English.
It is also a Hawaiian themed Christmas song composed by Robert Alex Anderson in 1949. The phrase is borrowed directly from English, but, since Hawaiian has a different phonological system (in particular, Hawaiian does not possess the /r/ or /s/ of English, nor does it have the phonotactic constraints to allow consonants at the end of a syllable ...
The words Mele Kalikimaka have nothing to do with the hawaiian language. The Hawaiian alphabet page describes how english letters were roughly translated into hawaiian words, and it is apparent to me that "Merry" gets turned phonetically into "Mele" (Me(rry->le)) and "Christmas" gets turned into "Kalikimaka" ((ch->ka)(ri->li)(st->ki)ma(s->ka ...
Orthography refers to the correct spelling of a language. [1] The Hawaiian language uses two features in its orthography that are not found in English: the kahakō (macron) and the ʻokina (glottal stop). Kahakō is the Hawaiian term for the macron, a short line added above a vowel letter to indicate that it represents a long vowel:
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2. Merry Christmas! May your happiness be large and your bills be small. 3. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season. 4. May your holidays sparkle with joy and laughter! 5. Merry Christmas with lots ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hawaiian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hawaiian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.