- A Native Hawaiian.
- A native or inhabitant of the Hawaiian Islands, the state of Hawaii, or Hawaii Island.
- The Polynesian language of Hawaii.
Hawaiian
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Ha·wai·ian or Ha·wai'·ian (hə-wä'yən)  |
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Hawaiian, member of the Polynesian group of the Austronesian family of languages. Of the fewer than 10,000 people who speak Hawaiian, only a few hundred are native speakers, but the language is taught in some Hawaiian schools and remains important as a symbol of ethnic identity. It also is an official language of the state of Hawaii. Proto-Polynesian, the parent language of Hawaiian, was spoken in W Polynesia c.1500-1200 B.C. Hawaiian bears significant phonological similarities to the other Polynesian languages; consonant and vowel correspondences among the languages is common. Hawaiian has five long and five short vowels and eight consonants. It differs from most of the other Polynesian languages by its lack of the consonant t, which became k in Hawaiian as it diverged from the parent language.
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii
Meaning #2:
a resident of Hawaii
The adjective Hawaiian has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language
Pertains to nouns: Hawaii (meaning #1), Hawaii (meaning #2)
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Hawaiian may refer to:
- People from Hawaii
- Hawaiian language
- Native Hawaiians
- The Hawaiians, a football team in the World Football League from 1974 to 1975
- Hawaiian Airlines, a commercial airline
- Hawaiian music
- Hawaiian shirt or Aloha shirt, a type of colorful shirt
- Hawaiian eruption, a type of volcanic eruption
- Culture of Hawaii
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