Islands, that schools teaching in English were set up ( Kuykendall 1968). Had gained so much in prestige, and was used to such an extent throughout the ButĮven though public schools educating in Hawaiian had been set up, by 1850 English English schools were initially restricted to the royal family. Kailua (island of Hawai ʻ i) of Christian missionaries from New England,Ī drive for spreading religion as well as literacy and general education was For further information on Pidgin Hawaiian, see Roberts (in vol. The first known contact language on Hawai ʻ i thus had the Hawaiian language as Almost immediately, as the needįor a lingua franca arose, Pidgin Hawaiian emerged. At first, ships, for the most partĪmerican, kept returning to the same few places and mainly docked at Kealakekuaīay (on the island of Hawai ʻ i) and Waimea (Kaua ʻ i). Trade, between the north-western American coast and the big ports of China (the They turned out toīe a convenient middle stop for the Pacific fur trade, later also sandalwood In 1778 James Cook “discovered” the Hawaiian Islands. Additionally, about 100,000 speakersĪre found on the mainland of the United States, in particular along the WestĬoast, in Las Vegas (Nevada), as well as in Orlando (Florida). Islands, located in the North Pacific Ocean.
About 600,000 people, that is, roughly half the population, on the Hawaiian
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