We love pidgin, Hilo Style!! Ice shave...😆😆😆!

Although im not hawaiian im still born and raised and i love my homeland❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

The guy at the last half sounds like Mike Tyson - Mike Tyson has a lisp - Mike Tyson has he’s pet pidgeons. 911 was an inside job…

Das awesome 🤙🏽🤙🏽💯🔥

Growing up in Hawaii during the 60’s, speaking pidgin English was definitely frowned upon.

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I miss that place! I used go to the manapua factory when I was stationed there. Same lady too, she basically knew me by name because i went so often. Always gave me extra pork hash. Miss it everyday.

It is shame that so many languages are dying

2:03 Is that ACTUALLY my friend's grandpa? Wow

Its more like a mash up of accents of broken english from the different asian cultures.

I love pidgin the way it sounds is just so comforting it never fails to remind me of my family 🫶

HOWZIT??? Time Surfer one Surf Rider. Class '74.

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Sounds more like take out Chinese food language from New York. Definitely not Hawaiian. The native Polynesian languages need to be spoken routinely again on the islands.

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I grew up in Hawaii. I have three brothers. The oldest one lives in simi valley ca. and the other two still live in Hawaii. The oldest one talks like a haole since he was in the Air Force and later worked at Lockheed and has lived in California since the 60s. My two brothers in Hawaii and I talk pidgin to each other. I’ve been living in California since 82 but I still got my pidgin accent. My wife is from Texas and she gets mad when I talk to her In pidgin and tells me I sound like an uneducated person. Lol, So sometimes I only talk to her in pidgin. Piss her off.

Sound similar to Geechee for sure. I love it.

This girl i went to grade school with visited Hawaii once a year. She'd come home talking like that. Little kids are like sponges with languages.

From the video, it's hard to say that it seems like a full language, rather it seems like a register of English--when I think of a creole language based on English, I think of something like Tok Pisin or Bajan creole, which have significant intelligibility barriers. That doesn't mean Hawaiian pidgin not an important part of culture, but a language generates its own syntax and poses strong intelligibility issues. Maybe the clips they played didn't fully demonstrate the lexical differences and intelligibility barriers, I don't know. But I don't use the term 'separate language' lightly...for instance someone claiming that AAVE is a language and not a dialect is lacking significant evidence. But that doesn't mean we can't celebrate unique dialects.

As a 9-year-old boy I moved from the New Orleans area to the Big Island, and a neighbor who was my age asked me if I "for like go da beach." I didn't understand at first, but within a few weeks I had no problem understanding pidgin. I moved back to New Orleans less than a year later and had to re-learn how to speak American English phrases because I was rapidly becoming Hawaiianized. I was one haole from da mainland as they said.

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You can take the boy from the island but not the island from the boy 🎶

I grew up in Hawaii we literally spoke 3 languages in 1 sentence sometimes, some people don’t believe me but some do or those who’ve lived there for a few years or visited know I’m telling the truth. Like my main languages growing up were English “American”, Hawaiian, and Pidgin and I still speak the combinations LOL I also grew up saying a few phrases in German and Spanish (two of my heritages). I also knew 2 other languages too.

sorry, old fut heah, I stay late to da pahty. pastor know about the new testament written in Pidgin for the kids in Waianae? Probably pretty common by now.

Literally, it’s a way of speaking. It’s broken English, but just like Patois, it sounds foreign but for people born there it’s completely understandable. It’s a beautiful melting pot breakdown of different cultures combined into one. That’s the beauty of it…

I’m on shrooms watching this and this is crazy. I’m mind blown 😂😂 I love educational videos

The Hawaiian I think should form their own writing system for Pigdin, that'd be 🔥🔥🚒

I’m the Haole girl of the family, cause my dad is white. I was raised by my mom’s side on Hawaii though so Pidgin just comes more naturally to tame than people expect. And often I’m called ‘too white’ to have lived here

I may be Filipino/Haole but my culture is Hawaiian through and through. I still speak pidgin to my family even though I’m in the mainland now. And Hawaii will always be my home.

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It sounds retarded. Tbh.

Most adorable language ever

I miss Hawai'i so much...it was such a blessing to be immersed in the beautiful culture during my college days. No ka oi!

I find this so easy to understand

This sounds EXACTLY like gullah geechie

The pastor is speaking broken English, pidgeon sounded less English. My great grandmother spoke pidgeon.

I worked on Oahu back in the 80s and loved hearing Pidgin.

I had to stop reading the subtitles to understand it. Been long time.

Basically talking Jamaican

This accent reminds me a bit of Wakka from Final Fantasy 10! Very cool. :)

SO #grateful to be living in Paradise I hope to learn the language as soon as possible I definitely want to fit in never leaving the island

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It's wonderful to see people celebrating their language :)

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I was born and raised on the Big Island, and my mother was an English teacher who did NOT want her kids speaking pidgin. However, as most of our relatives and friends spoke it, we couldn't help but learn it. We all slip in and out of it easily, depending on the circumstances and who we're speaking with. I live on the mainland now, and my kids always know if I'm getting a call from home. "Eeehhh, howziiiit brah!"

This sounds similar to Jamaican patois the pronunciation and everything sounds like Jamaican patois but the thing is us Jamaicans speak on a higher pitch. We sound more aggressive.

The origins of pidgin is W. African. There were West African and Papau N. Guinea people saying they understand each other and I also saw this amongst the other Pacificers. For instance, some of your names and words I recognize because I'm familiar with some African languages. It's mind-blowing.

Lived in Hawaii from 1998-2001. I was a kid at the time (ages 12-15), so watching the video just brings me back You pick up on this language and way of speaking as I know I was doing it too after not too long.

this is silly, but i'm a linguist & i got my wisdom teeth out two days ago, and i'm still on meds that make me kind of loopy, but this video reduced me to tears. it's absolutely so beautiful to see new languages emerging & to have such a well-documented history of them, as well as people like kent who are passionate about their preservation. it's really beautiful. if anyone reading this speaks a pidgin/creole, just know that you are among the first few generations of a whole new form of life in this world. what you and your community say now, how you shape language to fit the world around you, will impact the development of this language for the rest of its history. that's really, really cool, and you should be proud of that