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Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special letter in the Hawaiian alphabet, the ʻokina.
The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...
Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...
Dennis "Bumpy" Pu‘uhonua Kanahele is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Hawaiian National Independence Advocate. He serves as President and Head of State of the Nation of Hawai'i. He was elected on March 6th, 1994 by the 'Aha Kupuna, the Kupuna Council (Council of Elders) at Kaʻanapali, Maui, an act of self determination by a council of 300 ...
Hawaiian kinship, also referred to as the generational system, is a kinship terminology system used to define family within languages.Identified by Lewis H. Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Hawaiian system is one of the six major kinship systems (Inuit, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese).
Francis Palani Sinenci (born 1942) is a recognized master-builder of traditional Hawaiian house building methods. Most know him as either "Uncle Palani" or "Uncle Francis". Sinenci is of both Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Filipino descent and he was born and raised in Hāna, Maui. He holds the title of "kuhikuhi puʻuone", which is the ...
This section is here to highlight some of the most common words of the Hawaiian Language, ʻŌlelo, that are used in everyday conversation amongst locals. Aloha Love, hello, goodbye
A niece is female and a nephew is male, and they would call their parents' siblings aunt or uncle. The gender-neutral term nibling has been used in place of the common terms, especially in specialist literature. [1] As aunt/uncle and niece/nephew are separated by one generation, they are an example of a second-degree relationship.