![]() Linguists call such impromptu tongues contact languages and they can extend well beyond the pidgin and creole that many of us have heard of. For a more complete list of Hawaiian words, go to or. When groups of people who speak different languages come together, they sometimes inadvertently create a new one, combining bits of each into something everyone can use to communicate easily. Most vowels are sounded separately, though some are pronounced together, as in Kalakaua: Kah-lah- cow-ah.īelow are some basic Hawaiian words that you'll often hear in Hawaii. The vowels are pronounced in the Roman fashion: that is, ah, ay, ee, oh, and oo (as in "too") - not ay, ee, eye, oh, and you, as in English. ![]() The Hawaiian alphabet, created by the New England missionaries, has only 12 letters: the five regular vowels ( a, e, i, o, and u) and seven consonants ( h, k, l, m, n, p, and w). You eat pupu (Hawaii's version of hors d'oeuvres) when you go pau hana. When you finish a job or your meal, you are pau (finished). Someone who's been here a long time is a kamaaina. If you've just arrived, you're a malihini. ![]() All visitors will hear the words aloha and mahalo (thank you). But many folks in Hawaii now speak Hawaiian as well.
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