Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — The Hawaiian Language. [ARTICLE]

The Hawaiian Language.

The language of Hawaii is very simple. To one who bears It for the first time comes the conviction that tbe aborigines expressed their sentiments in primitive vowel sounds, to which some consonants have been added. Each vowel is sounded as in Latin, and the words are easily pronounced by one who Is patient and wishes to speak distinctly. The pronunciation will be all the better if the speaker will draw out, almost drawl, the vowel sounds, for which reason tbe language Is well suited to the doleful Hawaiian wait Say Hoo-noo-luu-luu and let the word sing itself.— Rosary Magazine.