#‘ōlelo Hawai’i

[808nontrad]

memorizing lullabies for my own ‘ōlelo hawai’i study and also to keep up a good stock to sing to my son. he loooooves you are my sunshine, and I’m so glad kimié miner put out the bilingual version 🥰

plenty more at hawaiianlullaby.com if anyone is curious!

[languageswithhomer]

❀𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝓂𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒶 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝑔𝓊𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒾𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝓊𝒹𝓎❀

Hi! I want to start independently learning a new language (alongside Castilian Spanish and German - which I study for my degree) but every day I change my mind on which one. So, I’ve decided to leave it up to the good people of tumblr.com. Find my propaganda for each language below the poll. Alternatively, recommend me a completely different language in the notes and make my decision even harder.

Propaganda for Scottish Gaelic:

♡ I have Scottish ancestry and family and friends who live in Scotland (some in Gàidhlig-speaking areas).

♡ I hope to study my master’s degree in Scotland.

♡ I have always wanted to learn a Celtic language and understand more about what came before English colonisation.

♡ The grammar and orthography look complex and fun.

♡ I care deeply about language conservation and this language is listed as “definitely endangered” by UNESCO.

Propaganda for Greek:

♡ I studied Classics for two years in college and believe it’s very important to have a working understanding of the modern culture when learning about a country’s history - as a matter of respect.

♡ I go Greece semi-regularly (maybe every four years or so) and it’s my favourite country to visit.

♡ I already know some of the basics.

♡ It’s an opportunity to learn a new writing system - and it doesn’t seem too difficult when compared with other writing systems like Cyrillic or Kanji.

♡ There are definitely the most resources available for this out of the three.

Propaganda for Hawaiian:

♡ (Note: I cannot find anything which lists the Hawaiian language as a closed practice but if it is, please let me know!)

♡ This is a “critically endangered” language - even more vulnerable than Scottish Gaelic.

♡ I’m very intrigued by its use of apostrophes and accents.

♡ I watched a documentary during a linguistics class on Hawaiian Pidgin and found myself captivated by the words which originated in Hawaiian.

♡ I would love to visit Hawai’i one day and want to show more respect to the people and their culture than many tourists seem to do.

♡ I have already found several resources to start my hypothetical Hawaiian learning journey (beyond Duolingo - which I refuse to use until it starts recognising the value of human translators).

☆ Note: this is my “fun” language, I do not care about “practicality” or number of speakers. I believe that all languages are incredible and should be learned. ☆

[Image source: Pinterest]

[midwestvalleygirl-moved]

Hii I hope this isn’t too weird but I wanted to tell you how much I love your name, it’s so nice!! 🙏🏾💕

aw, not weird at all, this is very sweet!! thank you!! 🥹🥹💕

[rotzaprachim]

some smaller bookstores, presses, and museum shops to browse and know about! Most support smaller presses, diverse authors and authors in translation, or fund museums and arts research)

(disclaimer: the only three I’ve personally used are the Yiddish book center, native books, and izzun books! Reccomend all three. Also roughly *U.S. centric & anglophone if people have others from around the world please feel free to add on

birchbark books - Louise Erdrich’s book shop, many indigenous and First Nations books of a wide variety of genres including children’s books, literature, nonfiction, sustainability and foodways, language revitalization, Great Lakes area focus (https://birchbarkbooks.com/)

American Swedish institute museum store - range of Scandinavian and Scandinavian-American/midwestern literature, including modern literature in translation, historical documents, knitters guides, cookbooks, children’s books https://shop.asimn.org/collections/books-1

Native books - Hawai’i based bookstore with a focus on native Hawaiian literature, scholarly works about Hawai’i, the pacific, and decolonial theory, ‘ōlelo Hawai’i, and children’s books Collections | Native Books (nativebookshawaii.org)

the Yiddish book center - sales arm of the national Yiddish book center, books on Yiddish learning, books translated from Yiddish, as well as broader selection of books on Jewish history, literature, culture, and coooking https://shop.yiddishbookcenter.org/

ayin press - independent press with a small but growing selection of modern judaica https://shop.ayinpress.org/collections/all?_gl=1kkj2oo_gaMTk4NDI3Mzc1Mi4xNzE1Mzk5ODk3_ga_VSERRBBT6X*MTcxNTM5OTg5Ny4xLjEuMTcxNTM5OTk0NC4wLjAuMA..

Izzun books - printers of modern progressive AND masorti/trad-egal leaning siddurim including a gorgeous egalitarian Sephardic siddur with full Hebrew, English translation, and transliteration

tenement center museum -https://shop.tenement.org/product-category/books/page/11/ range of books on a dizzying range of subjects mostly united by New York City, including the history literature cookbooks and cultures of Black, Jewish, Italian, Puerto Rican, First Nations, and Irish communities

restless books - nonprofit, independent small press focused on books on translation, inter and multicultural exchange, and books by immigrant writers from around the world. Particularly excellent range of translated Latin American literature https://restlessbooks.org/

olniansky press - modern Yiddish language press based in Sweden, translators and publishers esp of modern Yiddish children’s literature https://www.etsy.com/shop/OlnianskyBooks

https://yiddishchildrensbooks.com/ - kinder lokshen, Yiddish children’s books (not so many at the moment but a very cute one about a puffin from faroese!)

inhabit books - Inuit-owned publishing company in Nunavut with an “aim to preserve and promote the stories, knowledge, and talent of Inuit and Northern Canada.” Particularly gorgeous range of children’s books, many available in Inuktitut, English, French, or bilingual editions https://inhabitbooks.com/collections/inhabit-media-books-1

rust belt books - for your Midwest and rust belt bookish needs! Leaning towards academic and progressive political tomes but there are some cookbooks devoted to the art of the Midwest cookie table as well https://beltpublishing.com/

[slayter-kinney]

brief break from my usual posting. bit random. but. hawaiian music is such a unique and beautiful form of music and i just really wish it had more recognition outside of Hawai’i as being more than just the background music at a tropical resort. it’s very existence is political; many older hawaiian music was written at a time where hawaiian kids were beaten by their teachers in school for speaking ‘ōlelo Hawai’i. some songs describe landscapes and places that don’t exist anymore due to colonization. not saying that it has to be your favorite genre cause i know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea (as with any genre in the world). but like so many other aspects of hawaiian culture it’s become so commodified for the tourism industrial complex that it’s become divorced from its original meaning and form.

[jvzebel-x]

[text image 1: "Our award-winning made in Hawai'i indie movie, The Wind & The Reckoning, was filmed on an off the grid ranch on Hawai’i island on a shoestring budget by a 100% Hawai’i crew and with a Hawai’i cast speaking in the original Native Hawaiian dialect.  This beautiful film has won numerous awards in mainstream film festivals, demonstrating that the themes of the movie resonate with audiences way beyond the shores of Hawai’i. The true story of Ko'olau, as shared by his wife, Pi'ilani, is a tale that needs to be shared with the world. 

Now that the film is having a very successful response in theatres throughout the Hawaiian islands, it's time to take it to cities beyond our shores. But the only way we can do this is with your kokua (help)."]

[image text 2: "More than half of the film is spoken in 'Ōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language). Because of this commitment to honoring the Hawaiian language, the filmmakers are having to distribute the film on their own without the support of powerful distributors in Hollywood. Why? They assume that there isn’t enough of a global audience for a movie spoken in 'Ōlelo Hawaiʻi. But we’re not so sure about that, because as we write this, the film has been extended in movie theatres six weeks in a row, thanks to the demand of people who are moved by this true story and want to learn about this important part of Hawaiian history."]

[image text 3: "As of 2022, there are more Native Hawaiians, aka "kanaka maoli," living outside of Hawai'i than on their island home.  Also, there are countless people who were born and raised in the islands of a variety of ethnicities, called "kama'aina," who want to live and raise their families as they had the privilege of doing so.  With soaring costs of living in Hawai'i a majority of the kanaka maoli and the kama'aina have been forced to move to the continent and to be separated from the very ohana they are providing for.  Hear their heart cry Hawai'i.  If we can't just yet bring them back to their island home let's bring some of Hawai'i to them.  Help us bring "The Wind & the Reckoning" and the Native Hawaiian delegation to Hawai'i communities living on the continent.  Help us honor and bless our ohana who are living so far away from us."]

please please please consider supporting!

[skold]

do you speak Hawaiian fluently?

nah i wish. there was nobody left in the family who spoke it fluently by the time i was born but i know a lot of basic/common phrases as well as terms of endearment and i also am familiar with hawaiian pidgin which is the local dialect somewhere between ‘ōlelo hawai’i and english. i haven’t been around that side of my family since i was a teenager unfortunately so i don’t think i’d be able to converse in pidgin but i can def understand it

[clarissaolsen-archive]

PSD by Lupus Australis, Graphic made by Cat

{ BRYANA HOLLY | TWENTY-EIGHT | CIS WOMAN﹜  welcome to san francisco, CLARISSA OLSEN! just to make sure, you go by SHE/HERS, right? okay, great. i just have a few questions for you before i can let you go..  how long have you been here for? TWO YEARS. where are you currently living? SOMA. what’s your current occupation? SURGICAL RESIDENT of THE UCSF GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENCY PROGRAM. what’s your dream occupation? PEDIATRIC SURGEON. wow! interesting. is there a secret that we can keep between you and i? HER DAUGHTER ISN’T ACTUALLY HER BIOLOGICAL CHILD. lastly, this is a bit of a random question but … what’s your favorite song? EVERYTHING MATTERS by AURORA & that’s all they wrote, friend! we can’t wait to see you around the golden city!

Trigger Warnings (I warn in front of the bio too I just like having these upfront. If you notice any potential ones I may have forgotten, even if they're not on the trigger list, please let me know and I will add them asap!):

General: Possibly drug addiction tw in her stats, depending on your opinion of caffeine.

Biography: Child Abandonment, Drug Addiction (npc's, not Clarissa's), Accidental Pregnancy (not Clarissa's and only very mentioned briefly in passing)

Full Name: Clarissa Rose Olsen Preferred Name: Clarissa Olsen Age: 28 Birthday: February 14th Height: 5’7” Gender & Pronouns: Woman (She/Hers) Sexuality: Bisexual Occupation: Surgery Resident in the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program Relationship Status: Engaged to Logan Elswood

Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawai’i Hometown: Waimanalo, Hawai’i Languages Spoken: English, some 'Ōlelo Hawai’i  Country of Citizenship: United States Ethnicity: Kānaka Maoli, Japanese, Russian and Slovenian

Conditions: N/A Allergies: N/A Addictions: Caffeine (gotta have that coffee to function. How else do you get through med school and residencies?)

MBTI: ENFJ Enneagram: 1w2 (The Reformer with The Helper Wing) Alignment: Neutral Good Zodiac: Aquarius Percy Jackson Parent: Persephone Pokémon Type: Ice

Ices are regal, polite, glamorous, and impossibly hard to know. Many of them seem ageless, in a bit of a pinched, tense-seeming way. With them, every pause, smile, and gesture is appropriate, yet strained. They know a lot about proper etiquette, and always have the right answer for how to gracefully solve a social problem. They have many friends, and host wonderful parties, yet you never feel at ease in their presence. Ices are as perfectionistic as Grounds, without the impatience and frustrating goal-mindedness. They are graceful and slow, meticulous and proud. Even something as simple as selecting an outfit can be elevated by an Ice into an art. Every step is considered and measured, every accessory perfectly placed. They don’t like being rushed or criticized; they don’t need your criticism, they’ll find the flaws on their own.

Pokémon Type: Dragon

Dragon Types seem to operate on their own plane of existence, with its own system of morals and values. Stubborn yet perpetually happy, Dragons refuse to grapple with your criticisms of them. Dragons live their lives without any care about whether other people notice. They tend to be reclusive and self-contained. Because they are so resolute about doing things their own way, and feel no need to explain it, they don’t make good long-term partners for most people. However, if you can give them the space they need to forge their own quiet, maybe sometimes even a bit odd, lives, you can learn a great deal of wisdom from them.

Winx: Nature

Father: Rei Olsen Mother: Clarissa doesn’t actually know this info. She left right after Clarissa was born and her father has never talked about her, and she’s never wanted to know. Children: Isabelle “Belle” Elswood (4 years old)

TWs: Child Abandonment, Drug Addiction (specifically cocaine, regarding her fiance), Accidental Pregnancy (not Clarissa's and mentioned briefly in passing)

You can skip both the addiction and pregnancy tw by not reading the 6th paragraph if you'd like. The paragraph starts with "The answer came in less than a year..." so just stop reading and go straight to "And despite the fact..."

For as long as Clarissa could remember, it's always been her and her father. Her mother left, not long after she was born, leaving simply a note that expressed she couldn’t do this. The whole being a wife thing, a mother, it was too much for her. But, despite everything - she’d never really felt a gap missing or anything. She had her father, who loved her very much, grandparents who she spent lots of time with, and she lived in probably the most beautiful place in the world.  Her father was a linguistic anthropologist with John Hopkins, working alongside the anthropology unit at University of Hawaii—Mānoa. A position he’d always held with great pride, but he’d always say the greatest joy was being her father.  And he was a great father. Clarissa didn’t even notice the absence of a mother until she started interacting with children her own age. And in all honesty, she's never really felt that void people expect her to feel whenever she mentions it was just her and her dad growing up. He was always there for her, every step of the way. Which only made the decision to attend college on the mainland even harder for her. Sure, she’d gotten into Cornell - something her father was excitedly telling everyone who’d stop long enough to listen to him. His Clarissa had gotten into an ivy league school, on a scholarship, but despite how ecstatic the man was - that didn’t make leaving any easier. It was in New York City she’d met Logan Elswood, it’d been a casual bump in. It’d been her second year of medical school when they’d bumped into each other and the girl he’d been walking with started laughing and trying to apologize for her dad between giggles. At first she thought it was a weird couple thing. He looked about Clarissa’s age, there was no way he was the father of a college freshman. But then he apologized for his sister and offered to buy Clarissa a coffee to make up for the error and from there, it felt like everything was falling into place. After that day, they’d talk constantly - he’d call her while she studied, she’d sit at his kitchen counter and work on anatomy as he tried to keep all nine of the siblings he’d dropped out of high school to raise out of trouble and try to ignore how uncomfortable the spacious upper east side apartment felt.

He’d grown up in an entirely different world than her. While Clarissa never really noticed her father struggling - the Elswood family were something else entirely. Too rich, uncomfortably so, the type of family where one of them would casually mention loaning their best friend the money for MIT because he couldn’t get a loan from the school at the dinner table and people didn’t act like it was the most outrageous thing they’d ever heard. Sometimes she wondered if this was what she actually wanted - sure she liked Logan, and his siblings accepted her with open arms and genuine enthusiasm. But, did she actually want to stay with him for the rest of her life, knowing that his world was so much different than hers? The answer came in less than a year of dating him in the form of a bundle left on the doorstep one July morning, with a note that echoed the one her mother had left. And despite Logan’s absolute, and genuine confusion, he took the situation at face value and accepted the fact he now had a daughter. Maybe storks didn’t exist, but exes that he’d broken up with long before they’d met and consensual hookup under the influence of cocaine he’d never thought much about certainly did. And maybe most people would have left after being hit in the face that not only was their boyfriend suddenly had an infant on top of the fact he’d never mentioned his cocaine addiction before, but she really liked Logan. And despite the fact all of her friends were telling her to leave before the situation got wilder - she stayed. She’d argue that decision was one of the best ones in her life. It was hard, balancing med school and a daughter she hadn’t been planning on having anytime soon, but it felt worth it every single time she came in the front door and Isabelle’s face lit up. Maybe welcoming your first child in less than a year of dating someone wasn’t the most ideal situation, but the longer Clarissa spent with the two, the more she realized that she wanted this. A life with Logan, being Belle’s mom. When she was given chance to legally adopt the girl finally she signed the papers without hesitation. Clarissa was here for the long haul, even if it meant smiling through her future-father-in-law’s obnoxiously large parties and Logan’s siblings constant shenanigans. It was worth it.

And when Logan suggested moving to San Francisco after she finished up her medical program at Columbia (it was “close enough to Emmett to keep him out of trouble,” and yet “far enough away from LA they wouldn’t have to babysit him unless something went drastically wrong” - a proposition she could understand the appeal of). She applied to residency at UCSF and got into the program, found a nice four bedroom apartment and settled into her life in San Francisco.  As far as anyone needs to be concerned, Clarissa Olsen moved into the neighborhood with her fiance, their daughter, and the two youngest Elswood children who Edward sent to live with them the second he found out they were leaving New York. (Much to Logan's relief, if we're going to be honest). And if the neighbors make comments about how Belle got her nose and how the girl looks just like her, well... Clarissa’s never going to say anything to the contrary. 

[queermaddscientist]

If anyone feels like harassing a racist company today go to @maloapoke on Instagram and dm them. First of all, their name (Ma’loa) is linguistically impossible in Hawaiian (the apostrophe/‘okina is a glottal stop and can only be between two vowels or at the start of a word before a vowel) they also claim that it’s a combination of two words, mau and loa, but you can’t just shove two words together in hawaiian and an ‘okina is just a consonant so this just makes. No sense. Mau loa would also translate as big sweet potato which makes no sense for a poke place. They have phrases such as

“Friendly, happy islanders”

And

“Korean Love sauce” and “Vul’Cano.” Poke is spelled wrong (it should have no accent and Hawaiian doesn’t have that type of accent anyway), and again, an ‘okina cannot go next to a consonant.

None of the toppings are traditional and yet they still claim to be authentic to hawaii.

Their website is offensive in so many levels and shows a lack if both research and respect. As a Native Hawaiian, you have my full permission to go harass them.

[wandererslullabi]

Happy Black History Month and ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i month, y’all! Hope all black and native Hawaiian folks have a good month.

[808nontrad]

haven’t been able to study much math lately like I had planned but at least I’m keeping up with ‘ōlelo hawai’i! hau’oli au ☺️

in high school, they told us not to take hawaiian language if we wanted to go to college, and I deeply regret listening to that “advice” (it was tough hearing that also come from the ‘ōlelo hawai’i kumu too…)

fingers crossed I can take intro to ho’oponopono in the spring, tho!

sadly the substance abuse counseling certificate isn’t being offered since there aren’t enough instructors, but at least there are still some classes available!

[language-and-stuffs-i-guess]

~my hawaiian notebook~

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

If I am not incorporated into the syllabus of the world’s biggest language app 40 years after my death then what is the point

[rotzaprachim]

Disney should have paid generously for talented Hawaiian-speaking language workers to translate and dub the original lilo and stitch to contribute to reclamation efforts for ‘ōlelo Hawai’i roughly a million years before making a multi million dollar also quasi animated remake

[valen-dreth]

hwehe....

[queen-breha-organa]

I don’t think some of you understand how dehumanizing some of your words are.

So many comments on my Sister post are “It’s fantasy” or “it’s just hair” or “I don’t see a problem with it.”

Don’t you realize, that’s the problem. You don’t see. I understand Polynesian culture has been closed for many years. I understand we are so different from the Western world, I know we could not be further apart. But god, could you please at least try to treat my people with respect? Could you at least dig deep online and have meaningful conversations with Polynesians? Don’t we deserve that? Shouldn’t we deserve that?

Because it’s not just hair. It’s never just hair.

Did you know in Polynesia, hair holds mana? Mana is a spiritual power, it binds us, it helps us lead, it gives us strength.

I cut my hair off when my grandfather died. He was my last true connection to Old Hawai’i. He was the last in my family who could speak fluent Ōlelo. My link to the old ways was lost that day. My heart was lost that day. Part of my spirit was lost. I will never get it back. And so I cut off my hair.

And instead of caring about that meaning, a hairstyle was stolen from a completely different culture, and used as an aesthetic. We were ignored, and Black Culture was stolen, again.

Do you have any idea how that feels? Because it screams at me “Your traditions are not enough.” “Your meaning is not pretty enough” “Your grief and understanding is not palatable enough.”

And even worse, as if it wasn’t enough to be pushed aside and ignored, i am constantly blocking people, and tags all because when people actually do “research” on Polynesian culture, they just use it to fetishize us more.

I’m so sick of the strong and silent bullshit. I’m so sick of the aggressive, possessive tropes. I’m sick of the dominance and angry echo chamber. I’m fucking sick of it. Not everything Polynesians do is aggressive. We’re not mindless sex dolls with a possessive kink and I’m so sick of seeing that.

I deserve better fandom representation than that. My people deserve better than that. I fucking deserve better. I have fucking feelings and I’m so sick of seeing all this fandom content that makes people like me out to be hyper sexual warriors or some bullshit. I’m so fucking sick of it, I have fucking feelings.

And that’s not to say everyone is like that. Some of you are just so phenomenal and kind and supportive it makes my heart hurt. Some of you go to bat for people like me every single day, and you try so hard to understand and you push yourself and you’re so phenomenal

But it’s undeniable that most of this fandom refuses to put in the work. And I’m sick of it. I’m sick of it.

Ignored or fetishized.

Those are my options. Every. Fucking. Day.