Hawaiian
Polynesian language
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Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Native Hawaiians[3]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Hawaii[4]
- Country: United States[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Marquesic[7]
- Writing system: Hawaiian alphabet[8], Hawaiian Braille[9]
- Commons category: Hawaiian language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: haw[11]
- Has part(s): Niihau dialect[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Hawaiian language[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 27,200[14], 26,205[15]
- Native label: ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i[16]
- Different from: Hawaiian Pidgin[17]
- UNESCO language status: 5 critically endangered[18]
- Indigenous to: Hawaii[19]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/HAW[20]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[21]
- Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object[22], isolating language[23]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Hawaiian-language films[24]
- Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[25]
- Related category: Category:Hawaiian pronunciation[26]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Hawaiian-language music[27]
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Influence
Things named for Hawaiian include Aloha[28], a lunar crater[29].
Why It Matters
Hawaiian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Hawaiian is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]
Entities named for Hawaiian include Aloha[28], a lunar crater[29].