Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1919 — Kanaka Language Going. [ARTICLE]

Kanaka Language Going.

Is the Kanaka tongue to become extinct? This is the question the elder Hawallans are asking themselves, and all they can see is" an affirmative answer. The children go to the American schools and are taught in English. It has become the language of the childhood of Hawaii, and they are rapidly forgetting the language of their which they first learned to speak. One old Hawaiian bewailed the fact that his grandson, aged fifteen years, who visited an elderly uncle on another Island, was unable to talk with the latter, because he knew only his native tongue and the child had forgotten it and could speak only In English. The Japanese and Chinese have schools where they teach their progeny their native tongues, but the nation of Hawallans has no government to maintain such schools, and the United States has not established any nor provided any course in the native language tn tire American schools. The younger generation minds It not at all, but the elders are sad.