Hawaiian Pidgin: Difference between revisions

| altname = Hawaiʻi = '''Creole English'''

'''Hawaiian Pidgin''' (alternately, '''HawaiiHawaiʻi Creole English''' or '''HCE''', known locally as '''Pidgin''') is an [[English language|English]]-based [[creole language]] spoken in [[Hawaii|Hawaiʻi]]. An estimated 600,000 residents of Hawai{{okina}}i speak Hawaiian Pidgin natively and 400,000 speak it as a second language.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Sasaoka |first=Kyle |date=2019 |title=Toward a writing system for Hawai'iHawaiʻi Creole |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/25a8f799-25da-4f99-985e-3e7ec71118cf/content |journal=}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite book|last=Velupillai|first=Viveka|date=2013|title=Hawai'iHawaiʻi Creole|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZkeAAAAQBAJ&dq=Velupillai%2C+Viveka.+2013.+%22Hawai%E2%80%99i+Creole&pg=PA252|journal=The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages|pages=252–261|isbn=978-0-19-969140-1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hwc|title=Hawai'iHawaii Pidgin|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-06-25|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Velupillai|first=Viveka|title=Hawai'iHawaiʻi Creole structure dataset|date=2013|url=https://apics-online.info/contributions/26|work=Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online|place=Leipzig|publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology|access-date=2021-08-20}}</ref> Although English and [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] are the two [[official languages]] of the state of Hawaiʻi,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hawaii.gov/lrb/con/conart15.html|title=Hawaii State Constitution|access-date=2 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705235552/http://www.hawaii.gov/lrb/con/conart15.html|archive-date=5 July 2007}}</ref> Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by many Hawaiian residents in everyday conversation and is often used in advertising targeted toward locals in Hawaiʻi. In the Hawaiian language, it is called '''{{okina}}ōlelo pa{{okina}}i {{okina}}ai''' – "hard taro language".<ref name="pukui">{{Cite book |last1=Pukui |first1=Mary Kawena |last2=Elbert |first2=Samuel H. |date=1991 |title=New pocket Hawaiian dictionary: with a concise grammar and given names in Hawaiian |language=English |location=Honolulu |publisher=University of Hawaii press |isbn=978-0-8248-1392-5 }}</ref> Hawaiian Pidgin was first recognized as a language by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015. However, Hawaiian Pidgin is still thought of as lower status than the Hawaiian and English languages.<ref name=":0"/>