Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 21, Number 12, 1 December 2004 — Original Hawaiian [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Original Hawaiian

I think it's an absolute tragedy that "Ta Tahito Orero o Havaii" is not being taught. The current language being taught at UH and in immersion schools is not the true, authenic and original language, like the one the people on Ni'ihau speak, but rather a western version. Anyone with even a little knowldege of the Hawaiian language knows that before the Americans changed it, we had the letters b, d, v, r, t and g. Let's get rid of the Hawaiian being taught and bring some poe o ta motu o Niihau over, and let them teach the true langauge. A lot of fellow Hawaiians get mad at me when I bring this up, but truth is truth! We were Tangata Maori o Havaii until it was changed to Kānaka Maoli! Keanu Wagner Via email

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