'O Puke Maika'i Kēia!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Twelfth Night

 

He haumana ’ōlelo Hawai’i hau’oli ’o au!  I am a happy Hawaiian language student!

 

… I think.

 

And happy Twelfth Night, everyone!

Comments

[viizou.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, lots of accents and apostrophes... Hope you enjoy it!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

:D The apostrophe gets a lot of abuse, doesn't it?

But in Hawaiian it does serve a purpose: it signifies a glottal stop. I can't tell the difference at the beginnings of words, though, unless they're strung together in a sentence. The macron (the line over the vowels) signifies a lenghtening of the vowel.

I'm enjoying it a lot. Hawaiian has always struck me as one of the prettiest languages. I can never fully explain the appeal of learning a language I'll probably never have the slightest occasion to use for any practical purpose, any more than I can explain why I make up my own languages. But if I decide I like the language, nothing can stand in my way.