07-12-2013, 02:02 AM
Personally, I think that it should be like Quebec here with very strong laws protecting the language. I think signage should be required to be only in Hawaiian etc. The problem is though, that this all came "so late in the game". All the nationalities are all mixed up now. Over on the Kamehameha Campus, they are trying, but they still have english underneath the Hawaiian. The kids are barely ever hearing the language at home, and that's how to really learn it. The navajo at least have a fairly large, still mostly isolated population, and that's the only way their language is still surviving now. So sad.