Hawaiʻian

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'''Hawai{{okina}}ian''' is an official language of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi{{okina}}i. While popular, it still has fewer primary speakers than either English or Japanese. As a secondary language, it is much more common, and is the source for most place names, and much local slang. The glossary below lists several commonly used Hawai{{okina}}ian terms.

=={{okina}}Okina==
The symbol in many Hawai{{okina}}ian words that looks sort of like an apostrophe is actually an wikipediaʻOkina|{{okina}}okina. It is considered to be a consonant letter, and represents the phonetic wikipediaglottal stop, used in many Polynesian languages. With succession in 2017, the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi{{okina}}i officially reclaimed the correct spelling of words of Hawai{{okina}}ian origin. A quick way to annoy many ''kama{{okina}}aina'' (see below), is to misspell or mispronounce such words. Hawai{{okina}}i for example, is pronounced ''ha-VEYE-ee'', with a noticeable glottal stop before the final syllable.

In wikipediaUnicode, the codepoint for {{okina}}okina is Unicode character U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA ( '''{{okina}}''' ) which can be rendered in HTML by the decimal entity &; or the hexadecimal form &;. Even if properly coded, many archaic computer fonts do not properly render the {{okina}}okina in which case a left single quote or an apostrophe might be used.

==Glossary==
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! Word !! Type !! Meaning
'''a''' ''conj.'' '''ali{{okina}}i''' ''n.'' '''aloha!''' ''interj.'' , hoi, and good-bye; the term also has many other meanings, including love, mercy, compassion, pity, loved one, and so on
'''bruddah''' ''interj.'' (inf; common equivalent of chummer)
'''e''' ''mod.'' , as in “''e hele'',” meaning “go ahead,” or “go!”
'''hale''' ''n.'' '''haole''' ''n.'' ; foreigner (usually ins.)
'''hawawa''' ''n.'' (ins; equivalent to slag)
'''hele''' ''v.'' '''hoa''' ''n.'' (equivalent to chummer)
'''hoa paio''' ''n.'' '''ho{{okina}}okalakupua''' ''n.'' '''{{okina}}ilio''' or '''{{okina}}ilio wahine''' ''n.'' (ins; equivalent to biff or slitch)
'''ka''', '''ke''' ''art.'' '''kahuna''' ''n.'' , sorcerer; expert in any profession
'''kama{{okina}}aina''' ''n.'' {{okina}}ian (“land child”)
'''kanaka''' ''n.'' '''kāne''' ''n.'' , man
'''kanike''' ''interj.'' , as in “cut the ''kanike, hoa''.”
'''keko''' ''n.'' (ins.; used by metahumans)
'''kila''' ''n.'' (“steel”)
'''kukae''' ''interj.'' , equivalent to drek
'''lanai''' ''n.'' , balcony, or veranda
'''leeward''' ''adv.'' (dry) side of an island
'''ma''' ''conj.'' '''mahalo''' ''interj.'' '''mai''' ''mod.'' , meaning “don’t,” as in “''mai hele'',” or “don’t go.”
'''makai''' ''adv.'' '''make''' ''v.'' '''make loa''' ''v.'' '''mauka''' ''adv.'' '''mea make''' ''n.'' '''naheka''' ''n.'' '''niwalikanaka''' ''n.'' (ins)
'''ola''' ''v.'' ; to be alive
'''pe-hia {{okina}}oe?''' ''–'' “how are you?”
'''pilikua''' ''n.'' (lit. large strapping fellow, country person)
'''pu''' ''n.'' '''ule''' ''n.'' , equivalent to pud
'''wahine''' ''n.'' '''wikanikanaka''' ''n.'' . (lit. strong hard human)
'''wiwikane''' ''n.'' . (lit. slender man)
'''wikiwiki''' ''adj.'' , fast, swift. (also the name of the airport shuttle service)
'''windward''' ''adv.'' (wet) side of an island
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==Primary source==
* ''Paradise Lost'' (p.73–74) ©1994 FASA Corporation. Authors Tom Wong & Nigel Findley
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