How did this ever happen? The 1978 Constitution must be amended. Tjere is valid and important reasons why all other 49 states have only 1 official language.
You made the claim, bozo. There are no sources that I have found that support it, which leads me to believe you are espousing made up data to back your claims. By the way, your data about the percentage of people who speak Hawaiian is also incorrect lol. 1.435 million / 24,000 = 1.67% … not 0.061%. You’re discrediting yourself as we speak.
I feel sorry for you for not being able to comprehend how grotesquely ignorant and obnoxious your perspective is. By doubling down on your ghastly public faux pas, you are only making yourself into the ultimate example of the stereotypical invasive and abrasive haole mentality.
The argument presented reduces the value of the Hawaiian language to a crude headcount, insisting that “facts” about the number of fluent speakers trump any “feelings” about its cultural importance. Such an approach not only misunderstands what language fundamentally represents, but also ignores the specific history of systemic injustices that rendered the Hawaiian language endangered in the first place. Far from being a neutral measure, using speaker numbers as a litmus test for a language’s worth is both arbitrary and devoid of cultural context.
To understand why the Hawaiian language’s current fragile state cannot be simply reduced to “facts” about how many people speak it, one must first appreciate that language is not merely a means of communication. Language is an embodiment of a people’s worldview, a repository of their collective knowledge, traditions, spiritual beliefs, and historical memory. For the Native Hawaiian people, ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i encodes genealogies, place names, chants (oli), and oral histories (mo‘olelo) that carry centuries of wisdom and cultural identity. Dismissing it as unnecessary or “dead” because it does not command a mass following is to reject the depth and nuance of an entire living cultural heritage.
One cannot discuss the state of Hawaiian without addressing the deliberate and systematic acts that nearly destroyed it. Following the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893—a sovereign nation with Hawaiian as its official language—colonial authorities imposed policies that marginalized Hawaiian speakers and their cultural practices. By 1896, English had been mandated as the only language of instruction in schools, and Hawaiian children were punished, sometimes brutally, for speaking their mother tongue. This forced linguistic shift was not a natural outcome of Hawaiian losing “utility” but a calculated effort to undermine Native Hawaiian identity and cultural continuity.
In light of these historical realities, using the low number of current speakers to justify dismissing the language is not a neutral “fact” but a conclusion drawn from a context of oppression and cultural erasure. The Hawaiian language’s diminishment was never an organic process; it was engineered by policies designed to assimilate Native Hawaiians into a dominant colonial framework. Thus, quoting current speaker counts without acknowledging this legacy is akin to arriving at a crime scene and blaming the victim for their own injury—no respect is paid to how violence and disenfranchisement created the situation in the first place.
Moreover, the notion that a language must be widely spoken to have value is a flawed metric divorced from historical and cultural empathy. After all, languages do not survive through sheer numbers alone; they persist through the commitment of communities, elders passing knowledge to younger generations, and the resilience of cultural identity in the face of adversity. Today, revitalization efforts—immersion schools, community classes, published literature, media broadcasts, and official state recognition—are attempts not only to preserve vocabulary and grammar but to restore dignity, cultural agency, and spiritual connection. These efforts have meaning and worth that cannot be measured by whether Hawaiian can help someone “get ahead in the world” in the conventional, utilitarian sense.
Dismissing the value of the Hawaiian language because it lacks a certain speaker threshold is an arbitrary standard that willfully overlooks the historical processes that led to endangerment. It reduces an entire people’s living cultural heritage to a hollow statistic. More than that, this disregard perpetuates the very colonial attitudes that undermined Hawaiian identity in the first place. The “facts” offered—speaker counts devoid of context—are not neutral. They are one-dimensional indicators that ignore who got to set those facts in motion and at what cultural cost.
Ultimately, the Hawaiian language’s significance transcends the number of fluent speakers. It is a symbol of resilience against generations of injustice and a beacon for cultural rebirth. Framing the discussion as “facts versus feelings” trivializes centuries of historic wrongs and reduces a profound cultural struggle to a numerical debate. True respect for the Hawaiian language and people demands understanding the story behind the statistics and recognizing that what was nearly destroyed through systemic injustice deserves restoration, not dismissal.
No I have exposed domestibc terrorism, When you have people that are coming after you With violence and threats of violence for a statement made at a city council meeting, And they want to split hairs as I told you before Hawaiian has been the official language since 1978 that's 46 years. There are 2,000 fluent speakers.
We spent millions upon millions upon millions upon millions upon millions in these 46 years, There are 1,500, 000 residents on Hawaii. No matter how much you don't like the truth it's there and it's true. It's not doubling down, I will not apologize and I will not be bullied into saying something that's not true.
Understand you are a self-invited visitor on stolen land and try to be humble if you’re able. You need to dig deeper in history than the 1970s if you wish to understand where you truly are.
If you are as patriotic as you make yourself seem, then consider the cognitive dissonance you’ve accepted by celebrating the American revolution against British colonial tyranny while simultaneously celebrating American colonial tyranny imposed on the sovereign nation of Hawai’i. Nobody is bullying you, you are simply humiliating and drawing attention to yourself on your own accord.
Do some reading, get over your ego, apologize, and if you wish to continue living here you will have a much more pleasant experience if you be humble and understand the cultural context of your presence.
Fact of the matter is, Anita, that ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi still maintains thousands of native speakers and the number of speakers grow each year because of the hard work, dedication, and ALOHA of the Hawaiian community. Your assertions are laughable. You may need to take a personal step back and remove YOUR emotions from the conversation. (;
You say that “Hawaiian is far, far, far from everywhere. It’s a fact”. Then why is that majority of our street signs and all of our cities are named all in Hawaiian. Because they all have deep meaning and history. Something you will never understand. Why do you use a fake Hawaiian name? Because you’re a dumb haole. If it were dead no one would be speaking it.
Disgusting. Your ignorance and lack of awareness and aloha for the people around you and the space you occupy is utterly disgusting.
Inā ʻaʻole makemake e ulu me mākou, pono e hoʻi i KOU piko. ʻO kēia ko mākou piko, ko mākou kulāiwi, ko mākou pae ʻāina— a pono mākou e ʻōlelo me ko mākou ʻōlelo mākuahine. NO NA KAU A KAU.
Language isn’t a numbers game, your entire argument is predicated on this weak and nonsensical position. Language value is not simply measured in monthly active users like a piece of software or something. If you don’t understand the full spectrum of what languages fully represent, do yourself a favor and don’t further embarrass yourself by trying to talk about it.
As well for argument of this, (forgive me if I got any mistakes or taken out of context etc) I’m aware of your evidence you’ve showned as well as your claim, but your evidence don’t really seem reliable.. seems more of a simple google search. I’ve looked onto UNESCO web, it’s currently down rn. But in my opinion, you do have evidence and a good argument etc, but it seems more feelings than facts in my perspective. Yes you do have evidence to support your claim, but is it reliable? It seems you’re relying more onto your opinions than solid evidence. Like I said, sure you do have evidence to prove Hawaiian is a “endangered language”, but to me it looks like your prioritising your feelings than solid evidence. Your belief that Hawaiian is a “dead language” is clouding your judgment.
I'm a linguist and in my opinion (which aligns with the general consensus) the value of a language is not determined by the number of active speakers. You seem to be hyper-fixated on this one metric as a means of coping with you self-imposed public humiliation.
Now you say the Hawaiian Language is a “dead, dead, dead language” and that “Latin is more in use that Hawai’i language” isn’t Latin just a minority? I mean Hawaiian language is more spoken fluently by thousands than Latin. Now I love Latin but Latin is mainly spoken by few and not fluently in a day to day life but in churches and historical. While Hawaiian is spoken fluently by thousands in a day to day life, especially in Ni’ihau. I read your argument and revised it, (forgive me if I got some mistakes) but I wouldn’t say Hawaiian is a “dead dead dead” language but more of an endangered one. There’s schools that are reviving this “dead language”.
The facts are that Hawaiian has been the official language since 1978 along with English, There have been billions and billions and billions of dollars spent...
And there are only 2,000 fluent speakers of the Hawaiian language in Hawaii.
It shouldn't take billions and billions and billions of tax dollars to only have 2,000 fluent speakers in 40 some years. That's my question ❓ And that's what and why they are attacking me so bad because they don't want you to put this together. I was going to make another article on it but I have received so many death threats that I think that I need to protect my safety first and then put the article out. As I said, I think it would be wonderful if people were taking these classes and learning and taking advantage of it and if you look at the bottom of my article I said except the challenge.
Kai not on your side. Tldr. Your article is so boring because of the many skips in logic you take. It makes the reader think...where is this lady coming from? First, you can't group up students that want to learn the language with those that don't and say that all this funding has gone in to force Hawaiian on students. Second, it is not dead, dead, dead as you claim it to be. That type of logic kills your credibility when you cite earlier that 2000 people use it as a first language. A language that is dead dead dead would be Sumerian that has no native speakers ...as in 0. Fourth, under your logic there must have been trillions of dollars spent trying to force Latin on students yet not even a boring page on that in your article. Finally, you miss that language is culture. It is a way to see and understand the world. Helping everyone see and understand in different ways is what Hawaii needs more of.
Peace, and be more responsible in your writing. Just because you have facts that agree with what you think does not mean you see the whole picture.
How did this ever happen? The 1978 Constitution must be amended. Tjere is valid and important reasons why all other 49 states have only 1 official language.
I'm an American citizen in our state of Hawaii
Genuinely can’t tell if you are truly this proud in your ignorance or if you are an intentional instigator. Either way, shame on you.
It's been funded since 1978, If you are in dispute of that supply your sources and then I'll share mine.
You made the claim, bozo. There are no sources that I have found that support it, which leads me to believe you are espousing made up data to back your claims. By the way, your data about the percentage of people who speak Hawaiian is also incorrect lol. 1.435 million / 24,000 = 1.67% … not 0.061%. You’re discrediting yourself as we speak.
consider hiring an editor if you’re trying to get taken seriously. this is as poorly written as the argument is pitifully constructed.
Your google research is less than impressive, in fact, it’s laughable.
I feel sorry for you for not being able to comprehend how grotesquely ignorant and obnoxious your perspective is. By doubling down on your ghastly public faux pas, you are only making yourself into the ultimate example of the stereotypical invasive and abrasive haole mentality.
The argument presented reduces the value of the Hawaiian language to a crude headcount, insisting that “facts” about the number of fluent speakers trump any “feelings” about its cultural importance. Such an approach not only misunderstands what language fundamentally represents, but also ignores the specific history of systemic injustices that rendered the Hawaiian language endangered in the first place. Far from being a neutral measure, using speaker numbers as a litmus test for a language’s worth is both arbitrary and devoid of cultural context.
To understand why the Hawaiian language’s current fragile state cannot be simply reduced to “facts” about how many people speak it, one must first appreciate that language is not merely a means of communication. Language is an embodiment of a people’s worldview, a repository of their collective knowledge, traditions, spiritual beliefs, and historical memory. For the Native Hawaiian people, ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i encodes genealogies, place names, chants (oli), and oral histories (mo‘olelo) that carry centuries of wisdom and cultural identity. Dismissing it as unnecessary or “dead” because it does not command a mass following is to reject the depth and nuance of an entire living cultural heritage.
One cannot discuss the state of Hawaiian without addressing the deliberate and systematic acts that nearly destroyed it. Following the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893—a sovereign nation with Hawaiian as its official language—colonial authorities imposed policies that marginalized Hawaiian speakers and their cultural practices. By 1896, English had been mandated as the only language of instruction in schools, and Hawaiian children were punished, sometimes brutally, for speaking their mother tongue. This forced linguistic shift was not a natural outcome of Hawaiian losing “utility” but a calculated effort to undermine Native Hawaiian identity and cultural continuity.
In light of these historical realities, using the low number of current speakers to justify dismissing the language is not a neutral “fact” but a conclusion drawn from a context of oppression and cultural erasure. The Hawaiian language’s diminishment was never an organic process; it was engineered by policies designed to assimilate Native Hawaiians into a dominant colonial framework. Thus, quoting current speaker counts without acknowledging this legacy is akin to arriving at a crime scene and blaming the victim for their own injury—no respect is paid to how violence and disenfranchisement created the situation in the first place.
Moreover, the notion that a language must be widely spoken to have value is a flawed metric divorced from historical and cultural empathy. After all, languages do not survive through sheer numbers alone; they persist through the commitment of communities, elders passing knowledge to younger generations, and the resilience of cultural identity in the face of adversity. Today, revitalization efforts—immersion schools, community classes, published literature, media broadcasts, and official state recognition—are attempts not only to preserve vocabulary and grammar but to restore dignity, cultural agency, and spiritual connection. These efforts have meaning and worth that cannot be measured by whether Hawaiian can help someone “get ahead in the world” in the conventional, utilitarian sense.
Dismissing the value of the Hawaiian language because it lacks a certain speaker threshold is an arbitrary standard that willfully overlooks the historical processes that led to endangerment. It reduces an entire people’s living cultural heritage to a hollow statistic. More than that, this disregard perpetuates the very colonial attitudes that undermined Hawaiian identity in the first place. The “facts” offered—speaker counts devoid of context—are not neutral. They are one-dimensional indicators that ignore who got to set those facts in motion and at what cultural cost.
Ultimately, the Hawaiian language’s significance transcends the number of fluent speakers. It is a symbol of resilience against generations of injustice and a beacon for cultural rebirth. Framing the discussion as “facts versus feelings” trivializes centuries of historic wrongs and reduces a profound cultural struggle to a numerical debate. True respect for the Hawaiian language and people demands understanding the story behind the statistics and recognizing that what was nearly destroyed through systemic injustice deserves restoration, not dismissal.
Hilahila ʻoe. E ola ka ʻolelo Hawaiʻi.
No I have exposed domestibc terrorism, When you have people that are coming after you With violence and threats of violence for a statement made at a city council meeting, And they want to split hairs as I told you before Hawaiian has been the official language since 1978 that's 46 years. There are 2,000 fluent speakers.
We spent millions upon millions upon millions upon millions upon millions in these 46 years, There are 1,500, 000 residents on Hawaii. No matter how much you don't like the truth it's there and it's true. It's not doubling down, I will not apologize and I will not be bullied into saying something that's not true.
Understand you are a self-invited visitor on stolen land and try to be humble if you’re able. You need to dig deeper in history than the 1970s if you wish to understand where you truly are.
If you are as patriotic as you make yourself seem, then consider the cognitive dissonance you’ve accepted by celebrating the American revolution against British colonial tyranny while simultaneously celebrating American colonial tyranny imposed on the sovereign nation of Hawai’i. Nobody is bullying you, you are simply humiliating and drawing attention to yourself on your own accord.
Do some reading, get over your ego, apologize, and if you wish to continue living here you will have a much more pleasant experience if you be humble and understand the cultural context of your presence.
Very good analogy, thank you for sharing your opinions And perspectives.
Fact of the matter is, Anita, that ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi still maintains thousands of native speakers and the number of speakers grow each year because of the hard work, dedication, and ALOHA of the Hawaiian community. Your assertions are laughable. You may need to take a personal step back and remove YOUR emotions from the conversation. (;
You say that “Hawaiian is far, far, far from everywhere. It’s a fact”. Then why is that majority of our street signs and all of our cities are named all in Hawaiian. Because they all have deep meaning and history. Something you will never understand. Why do you use a fake Hawaiian name? Because you’re a dumb haole. If it were dead no one would be speaking it.
Disgusting. Your ignorance and lack of awareness and aloha for the people around you and the space you occupy is utterly disgusting.
Inā ʻaʻole makemake e ulu me mākou, pono e hoʻi i KOU piko. ʻO kēia ko mākou piko, ko mākou kulāiwi, ko mākou pae ʻāina— a pono mākou e ʻōlelo me ko mākou ʻōlelo mākuahine. NO NA KAU A KAU.
It's all sourced facts? The numbers don't lie Maybe you can't handle the truth, reread the article.
Language isn’t a numbers game, your entire argument is predicated on this weak and nonsensical position. Language value is not simply measured in monthly active users like a piece of software or something. If you don’t understand the full spectrum of what languages fully represent, do yourself a favor and don’t further embarrass yourself by trying to talk about it.
When taxpayers are paying money and it's being misappropriated and not producing yes we do care about how much is spent and for how long
Latin is more in use than the Hawaii language.. facts Not Feelings
As well for argument of this, (forgive me if I got any mistakes or taken out of context etc) I’m aware of your evidence you’ve showned as well as your claim, but your evidence don’t really seem reliable.. seems more of a simple google search. I’ve looked onto UNESCO web, it’s currently down rn. But in my opinion, you do have evidence and a good argument etc, but it seems more feelings than facts in my perspective. Yes you do have evidence to support your claim, but is it reliable? It seems you’re relying more onto your opinions than solid evidence. Like I said, sure you do have evidence to prove Hawaiian is a “endangered language”, but to me it looks like your prioritising your feelings than solid evidence. Your belief that Hawaiian is a “dead language” is clouding your judgment.
I'm a linguist and in my opinion (which aligns with the general consensus) the value of a language is not determined by the number of active speakers. You seem to be hyper-fixated on this one metric as a means of coping with you self-imposed public humiliation.
A simple search says Latin has only 2,000 speakers, Hawaiian speakers are in the tens of thousands. FACTS my dear immigrant… FACTS. Lol
Not a fact lol, a simple google search debunks your claims. Are you well in the brain? Hypothetical question.
Now you say the Hawaiian Language is a “dead, dead, dead language” and that “Latin is more in use that Hawai’i language” isn’t Latin just a minority? I mean Hawaiian language is more spoken fluently by thousands than Latin. Now I love Latin but Latin is mainly spoken by few and not fluently in a day to day life but in churches and historical. While Hawaiian is spoken fluently by thousands in a day to day life, especially in Ni’ihau. I read your argument and revised it, (forgive me if I got some mistakes) but I wouldn’t say Hawaiian is a “dead dead dead” language but more of an endangered one. There’s schools that are reviving this “dead language”.
The facts are that Hawaiian has been the official language since 1978 along with English, There have been billions and billions and billions of dollars spent...
And there are only 2,000 fluent speakers of the Hawaiian language in Hawaii.
It shouldn't take billions and billions and billions of tax dollars to only have 2,000 fluent speakers in 40 some years. That's my question ❓ And that's what and why they are attacking me so bad because they don't want you to put this together. I was going to make another article on it but I have received so many death threats that I think that I need to protect my safety first and then put the article out. As I said, I think it would be wonderful if people were taking these classes and learning and taking advantage of it and if you look at the bottom of my article I said except the challenge.
Source for your factually incorrect claim about billions of billions of dollars? Lady your brain rot is showing
Kai not on your side. Tldr. Your article is so boring because of the many skips in logic you take. It makes the reader think...where is this lady coming from? First, you can't group up students that want to learn the language with those that don't and say that all this funding has gone in to force Hawaiian on students. Second, it is not dead, dead, dead as you claim it to be. That type of logic kills your credibility when you cite earlier that 2000 people use it as a first language. A language that is dead dead dead would be Sumerian that has no native speakers ...as in 0. Fourth, under your logic there must have been trillions of dollars spent trying to force Latin on students yet not even a boring page on that in your article. Finally, you miss that language is culture. It is a way to see and understand the world. Helping everyone see and understand in different ways is what Hawaii needs more of.
Peace, and be more responsible in your writing. Just because you have facts that agree with what you think does not mean you see the whole picture.
Merry Christmas
You need to read the article. You've made assumptions that are not true or either you lack reading comprehension.