"Values of Aloha"

[pahoated]

The Hawaiian language before contact is preserved on Niihau. If you look at the way Hawaiian is transcribed into the written word, the missionaries heard an 'L' for the 'R' sound and a 'K' for the 'T' sound. In addition, the missionaries required all Hawaiian children to attend school, where the Hawaiian language was banned in 1896 and children were beaten if they spoke Hawaiian. The result is the only native speakers of true Hawaiian are on Niihau.

If you look at the written Hawaiian around today, replace the 'K' with a 'T' and the 'L' with an 'R' sound, plus there is no 'V' in the Hawaiian language. Kamehameha becomes Tamehameha. Mo'o Kuna becomes Mo'o Tuna. Kapu becomes Tapu, which then becomes the same spelling as in Tahiti, where the word came from. In 2016, Native Hawaiians have only recovered about 30% of their culture pre-contact and the haole suppression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfoIqkRiTj8
"the original letter "R" Used instead of the "L". The Hawaiian pronunciation of the letter "L" is more correctly an "R" sound as in Spanish. The missionaries could not distinguish so they replaced the R with L and combined both the letter "T" and "K" into the "K"."

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