Hawaiian word definition

[pahoated]

That is about the best translator around, and there are others that are really bad. On Kauai, the word for shark is mako. What are essentially the last remaining authentic native Hawaiians are on Niihau and people from Kauai say they often don't understand their dialect completely. Everything we see as Hawaiian, even by native Hawaiians, is all contaminated. Since the Hawaiians didn't have a written language, it took a missionary to translate the phonics to text. He heard the phonic 't' as 'k' and there it is. Kapu was actually Tapu, which the word taboo comes from, the Tongan. Kamehameha is actually Tamehameha, Wakea is Watea, and so on. Not long after, the missionaries started schools and banned anything Hawaiian, even the language. This left the keiki to speak the original language at home but going to a school that instructed them how to enunciate "properly" according to the missionary translation. In a way it's very good the Robinson's are keeping Niihau like a zoo, it is the only authentic native Hawaiian culture left in these islands.

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