{"id":363,"date":"2007-04-23T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/puke-wehewehe-olelo\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:11:08","slug":"puke-wehewehe-olelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; puke wehewehe \u02bb\u014dlelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <em>puke wehewehe \u2018\u014dlelo<\/em>, is the Hawai\u2018ian for dictionary. It means literally &#8216;book [that] explains words&#8217;. I found a good <a href=\"http:\/\/wehewehe.org\/\">Hawai\u2018ian-English dictionary<\/a> today, and also some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahapunanaleo.org\/learnhawaiian\/learn_hawaiian.html\">online Hawai\u2018ian lessons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/journalgazette\/living\/17119014.htm\">this article<\/a>, the Hawai\u2018an language is in a slightly more secure position today than it was 20 years, when the most of those who spoke were adults, and there weren&#8217;t many of them either. Nowadays about 2,000 children are educated through the medium of Hawai\u2018ian each year, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahapunanaleo.org\/resources\/resources_hawaiianmedium.html\">Hawai\u2018ian medium education<\/a> is available from kindergarten to college. Few of the students in the Hawai\u2018ian medium schools speak the language when they start, and most of them speak English outside school, so there is a long way to go to revive Hawai\u2018ian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, puke wehewehe \u2018\u014dlelo, is the Hawai\u2018ian for dictionary. It means literally &#8216;book [that] explains words&#8217;. I found a good Hawai\u2018ian-English dictionary today, and also some online Hawai\u2018ian lessons. According to this article, the Hawai\u2018an language is in a slightly more secure position today than it was 20 years, when the most of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,10,133,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian","category-language","category-language-revival","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}