oi aku ta maitai o teia mau wikio ma mua o ka hoopaa leo wale no, no ka mea, hiki iau ke nana i na maka o ka mea e olelo hawaii ana. mahalo ia olua! ulu kou olelo hawaii paha i ka nana ana o kau mau wikio.

I love this! I can’t understand everything without subtitles but it is super helpful catching a few words here and there. Cooking vocabulary and recipe videos are my favorite way to study languages. Mahalo!

Mea faahiahia , te faarooraa i te mau huru reo e parauhia nei e te mau nunaa o te moana nui atea Mahalo nui , Tena koutou , mauruuru, koutou nui no te teie hohoà .

Hawaiian subtitles would be useful, htnaks for your videos !

Nahenahe i ta pepeiao ta ha'alono i tāu valavala'au 'ana

The last newsletter that you sent out really helped. I am diving into the recorded conversations. Such an invaluable resource! Mahalo nui as always!

More daily ola wikio like me keia, ke oluolu!

Such a beautiful language

Some Tongan works as I listen to you guys talk and understand some - Earth Tahi - Sea Moana - Deep Sea Vai - Water Vai Enu - Drinking Water Vai Kava - water used for the kava Uha- Rain Haka - To Boil Haka Talo - Boiling some Talo Ma - Bread

As a Tongan and listening many words I can understand and many you use the K and we use a T like Niihau. I think the answer to the language is not lost but still there. You need to look at the other islands nearby in Polynesia who the language is spoken. Not to translate how someone speaks English but how a Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian or Māori or one of the other languages would say it. Same as Tongan if you translate it in English it does no make sense. When William Mariner wrote his book the Hawaiians on his boat before the Tongan took over understood the Tongans and were unharmed and sent back to Hawaii. Ofa Lahi Atu and Keep The Fight Alive

Mahalo

Kumu at ho'o yesshuh

He hana waiwai loa keia hana, mahalo ia olua no ka malama ana o ka olelo Hawaii, no laila, nui ke aloha i loko o kou puuwai a me kou naau no ko olua kokoua iau i kona makamake e ao i ka olelo hawaii. aloha no. Loihi loa ka huakai a paakiki ka hana, aka, pono ka hana no ka mauliola o ka lahui.

O ka po'e Ni'ihau wale no e 'olelo "loa" me ka lo'ihi ma ka hua leka "A"? Ma kahi o "loa'a"? Ke wala'au wau me ku'u anake mai Ni'ihau mai, 'oia wale e ha'i pela.

Olelo Hawaii kakou!

Keep um coming palala

Maita’i! Mahalo ā nui no kāu hana maika’i. Ke comfrey noho’i! Ha’o wau kēlā. Ke aloha nō

5:21 chamorro.

I love the episodes with Tuti, they're my favorite! I love hearing her speak Hawaiian, i love hearing her laugh, and i love listening to her talk about her life. I've listened to all of your conversations with her dozens of times each and i feel like i learn something new each time. Nahenahe no hoi kana olelo i ka pepeiao.

I also would to know if Mr NeSmith sees a similar story of Hebrew, and elements of Yiddish and loanwords from Euopean languages?

Braddah teaching us pronunciation but not showing us spelling. Lol

One of the islands in the cookislands mangarongaro is derived from Vaimangaro from tahitians passing through. They were looking for fresh water but the ponds there were Vaimangaro.

In the cookisland dialect we say Toku/Taku but we also say Noku/Naku if im right the meaning to that is 'mine'.

The mangarongaro/hararanga/Tongareva Dialect adopted the letter 'L' but they can speak with 'R'. The southern dialect removed the letters 'H' and 'F'. But their dialect was exactly like the tuamotu dialect. Europeans corrupted the Southern dialect when they write it.

We say peea as an informal way also. We can say peea mai nei.

We say in Rarotonga Kia orana: greetings/may you live long Peea ua koe: how are you. Meitaki au: I'm fine/good.

Hawaiians that lived among the tongans in Hawaii had names with the letter 'T' in it. Either the tongans called them that, they are from Ni'ihau or Hawaiians once spoke with the letter 'T'. I've heard hawaiian language is a corrupt language like Tahiti,Samoa,Rarotonga etc..due to Europeans writing our language as they pleased.

Rapanui language sounds like most of the dialects in the cooks and tuamotus/Havaiki. Reo means language and arero means tongue. Vananga can also mean the same thing. Metua tane for father. Papaha for foreigner Maniota for cassava Akangaru Aka'onu or akahonu Ava for channel or river That convo at the end I understood both💯 this must have been the interaction between Tupaia and the maoris. Love it.

Aloha au i kēia moʻolelo e pili ana nā moa wahine ma ka hale o kou makuahine! Aloha nō.

Alelo is tongue in Tongan and Leo is voice.

It has been such an education to hear those brothers and sisters of Polynesia to share so many rich traditions to keep our culture alive and well. Thanks son for exposing us with this LIVE experience with such special people of Polynesia. It makes me feel so proud of my rich heritage from my father, your Papa. Many blessing to keep educating us in a sincere way and with the passion that you’ve Ben blessed with from above.

I'm Tuvaluan and i understand everything they saying

Sadly the situation feels so dire. How intelligible is the Hawaiian that's say written in the newspapers during the Kingdom of Hawaii years to immersion speakers and niihau speakers? Would you describe this neo Hawaiian as a Creole language? Or even a constructed language like Israeli Hebrew? Maybe Pseudo Hawaiian

Its so crack up samoans and tongans were so quick to migrate to Hawaii yet there is no real cultural connection its only through marriage and modern migration, Hawaii Maoli, Tahiti Maohi, cook islands Maori, Rapa Nui and Marquesas and New Zealand maori are all intertwined all connected through sea, language and the most beautiful of women in the Pacific islands

I loved the tuatua with aunty. That was so awesome as l could understand you through aunty speaking our reo and then filling in the gaps of your korerorero. So fascinating!

Mahalo Malu! The subtitle at the end😂😎

Im from Mangaia, Cook islands i can understand the rapanui language so clearly ❤

Meitaki Maata from the Cook Islands. You must come and visit us one day soon. We stayed at Ohia Waikiki and Loved FESTPAC24 MAHALO NUI.

Back in the 1960s, I was taught to pronounce it "HA-vai-ee" . . .

Chicken skin kanaka 💯💯 Mahalo nui loa for sharing, now i gotta learn more Olelo so i can understand 🤙🤙🙏🙏🙏

Aloha au i ka leo o kēia kupuna akamai a nanea. I ke ʻano haole, ua nīnau na mākua, he aha e makemake ʻai ʻoe i kou wā ma hope kona wā ʻōpiopio? Inā i ʻōlelo aku kahi poʻe i kēia nīnau iaʻu i kēia pō, i pane akula au, makemake au i ke ʻano ʻAnake Tuti. She has the best energy, heart, and always makes me smile when I both see hear, feel her, hear her. Thank you for growing good vibes and good olelo, ēa.

I'm loving all of these Polynesian comparisons and contrasts. It really shows that Hawaii is more related to the Pacific islands than the American continent.

I love this exchange

I was surprised to find more familiarity with Tahitian than I initially expected being that as a Tongan/Samoan I'm from the Western Polynesian linguistic branch. In Samoan poko can mean head but it usually is just used to say bald now and also can mean smart. In Tongan pehe means to recall or to relate something depending on the context. And then in Samoan pese is song relative to the Tahitian term. Thanks for taking the time to talk to everyone,I enjoyed what the Cook Island NGO had to say about the importance of staying connected to our land. So true especially in the way the world is changing.

ʻAʻole maopopo iaʻu i kēia mau noʻonoʻo. Ola ihola ka ʻōlelo i loko o koʻu koko, ola ihola nō ka ʻōlelo i loko o nā hoʻomanaʻo o koʻu mau kūpuna i koʻu māla iho a me koʻu mau moeʻuhane. Aloha au i ka hana "revitalization". Nui ke aloha. Ua hana paʻakikī ka poʻe he nui. Nānā au i ka ʻāʻumeʻume i ka kapa ʻia ʻana o kēia ʻōlelo pono a kēlā ʻōlelo hūpo. He "colonizer consequence" kēia. When I returned to Oʻahu, to reconnect with cousins I had not seen in 40 years last year, we talked story and I was especially interested in my grandfather, who was the last indigenous speaker in the family. I became the first to return, hearing a deep inner call to come home to the language. I was struck by the similarity in stories and life experiences in relation to family, but also, by one cousin saying when she asked about his time as a child, he said the overthrow of the government broke his heart. That this action set Hawaiians against Hawaiians and when I hear conversations that label some forms of the Hawaiian language today as a thing that insults the kupuna, I experience a strong value judgement, I feel and hear the same division I have heard since a small child. I am choosing to walk a different way. This dialog prompted me to look at how language evolves. Of course it is a different language because the times have shifted radically and the shift in language and lifestyles reflects this. It is normal and natural. I also makes my inner pele lava rumble and roll to label a particular practice of "word invention" as something that is insulting to the kupuna when the one speaking translates books written in English into Hawaiian and uses the very things a part of the new language that is somehow being articulated as less. Something happens when you are in the elder phase and I have no more energy for division. My very strong opinion is, I feel immense love and gratitude for each and every grammar book written, for the early writings of Malo and Fornander and Kepalino, the newspapers. For the tremendous effort to record some of the beautiful voices. Anyone who makes an effort to learn a little bit, I feel so much respect, so much gratitude. I donʻt want my Hawaiian ancestors to be erased by the language disappearing. To me, what is more important is the quality of the soul, the heart, how we ARE in relation to the world, to the land and the waters, the respect and love we show our ancestors, our caretaking for the benefit of all life and for those that are coming, not if our ʻōlelo uses an ʻokina in a written form, not if there is a word that is borrowed from the English language or one that is crafted to give a name to something our ancestors did not have.It is the heart and our actions. Pau kēia kahe o ʻōlelo. Boundaries.

Critical thinking, observing. I am okay, you are okay, we are all okay, and anyone making an effort to learn Hawaiian, respect, thank you for giving creative energy to the words you are learning. All language evolves and changes as society evolves and changes. This is a normal and natural occurrence. It is my experience and understanding that colonialism pitted Hawaiians against Hawaiians and this in my view continues on among the people to this day, and coining integration of words "invented" as a part of a second language, and expressing this as an "insult" to the kupuna is a way of conveying somehow that it is not pono in the speakers view (to me at least, this is how it comes across) this pits one form against another. What is unsettling to me personally is having a copy of the Hobbit in Hawaiian, and how there are words in the book that I imagine the "native speaker" referred to in this view would not understand that is a part of the "invention" process that seems to be disparaged. So, in essence, following the logic, the speaker is showing disrepect to the kupuna through its use. I see what has occurred with the Hawaiian language as a bold and courageous act of resiliency. How the elders at one time observed that the young ones were not speaking and action was taken to preserve the language and it flowed with the changes. Yes, there may have been actions in the process of forming the immersion schools that might not have been perfect and might have been awkward, but I am grateful they exist! Not all speakers have access to relationships with Ni'ihau speakers, and yes, this is true, it is the only unbroken line remaining, but language varied from the bits I have gathered, from region to region, and even the way it was spoken among strata of community differed according to the teaching of one kupuna. For me, moving forward, it is mostly about intention, authenticity, integrity, honesty, hard work, embracing responsibility. As a part of my journey it felt like a call from my ancestors to come home to the language and I have been heeding the call reading and listening and digesting as much as I can. I don't have the luxury of being day to day in an environment embraced by those whose first language was Hawaiian. In fact, I can expect what my father called the haole stink eye, and expressions of the genocide wound in form of non-acceptance from some at being a Turtle Islander. My ancestors have planted me elsewhere. Just as ancestors of the Hawaiians came from other islands the flow continues of moving to other lands. What is beautiful about being here, is there are the chance occasions where I may meet an indigeous, as I did recently, and how they welcomed me with a warm embrace saying our grandmother says we are canoe brothers, this type of warmth, not counting degree of Hawaiian blood, not judging the type of Hawaiian speaking coming out of my mouth or the oli chanted as a blessing, they gave aloha, I gave aloha, we celebrated that we were able to speak in whatever form and whatever degree the language of our ancestors. In my older age, I just don't have the energy for divisiveness.

He mea maikaʻi kēia e like me ka mea maʻamau. Mahalo nui loa! You're an invaluable asset to your community and the olelo. This content is monumentally important to keeping the olelo alive. We are in the process of talking about leaving diaspora and coming back home. We need more Hawaiians back home.

The northern cooks has some tongan/ samoan influence, and southern cooks , more tahiti influence and rest of french polynesia, etc.. , 13 of 15 islands have their own dialects. I grew up listening to my dad speak atiuan to his siblings, aitutaki/ rarotongan to his inlaws , tongan to my mum, and samoan to our neighbours and his friends 😅.

It's really cool to hear Hawaiian olelo and Mangarongaro reo can converse and understand each other that goes to show that moana nui a kiva is all Family

fascinating!