The orphan was surveying the sea from atop a lava-rock shrine when he saw them—omens that looked just as his uncle, a kahuna, had foretold. There was a flock of airborne stingrays amid a series of ...

“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a ...

Linguists say they have determined that a unique sign language, possibly dating back to the 1800s or before, is being used in Hawaii, marking the first time in 80 years a previously unknown language — ...

For what school officials are saying is the first time in over 100 years, children raised in the Niihau dialect as their first language will graduate from high school having used that same dialect as ...

Tia Koerte grew up speaking Olelo Niihau, a dialect specific to the Niihau Hawaiian island, and knew she wanted to help preserve it. Niihau has fewer than 500 native speakers in the world, including ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – We all make use of our island roadways, but when was the last time you paid attention to their given names? Did you know you could learn more about Hawaiʻi’s history and language if ...

Until about a decade ago, visitors to Hawaii were often confused by the pidgin spoken by “locals” (residents). It’s possible they felt they were in a foreign country. Hawaiian pidgin evolved during ...