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Name: Hawaiian Type: Language Alternate Names: Olelo Hawai'i; 'Olelo Hawai'i Makuahine; Hawaii; Hawaaian Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 1,000. 500 with Ni’ihau Island connections, another 500 in their 70s or 80s (1995 L. Wong). 8,000 can speak and understand it (1993 K. Haugen). In 1900 there were 37,000 L1 speakers (1995 Honolulu Advertiser). Census (2000) lists 27,160. Ethnic population: 237,128 in Hawaii (1996 Hawaii State Dept. of Health), 18.8% of the population (1990 Hawaii State Dept. of Health), and 99,269 ethnic Hawaiians on the USA mainland (1990 census), including 24,245 in California. Ethnic Hawaiians include 8,244 pure Hawaiian, 72,809 between 50% and 99% Hawaiian, 127,523 less than 50% Hawaiian in Hawaii (1984 Office of Hawaiian Affairs). In 1778 there were believed to have been more than 500,000 pure Hawaiians (1995 W. Harada) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 1000 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 1000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: haw Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Austronesian Parent Subgroup: Marquesic (marq)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable