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Okina and Kahako: Why I Don’t Use Them

Aloha hou mai! This week, I'm back with a hot topic: the use of okina and kahako in written Hawaiian. In this video, I touch upon the reasons why I don’t use them when I write, and why I choose not to use them when teaching my students. There are many symbols for English that represent sounds made in that language. I encourage you to look into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to learn more. Even though this writing system exists, most native speakers of English don’t use it and probably don’t even know of its existence. Olelo Hawaii is full of rich sounds and nuances that can be heard among native speakers from Hawaii to Niihau. The okina (glottal stop) and kahako (macron-long vowel) are just two symbols that are currently used in modern written Hawaiian to represent sounds in the language. This is an incomplete system. Far more symbols should be proposed to accurately represent spoken Hawaiian among native speakers. In the video, I give an example of the place name, Waimea. Currently, there is no symbol to denote that the “ai” sound is not pronounced like “y” in English. Similarly, the “ai” in the word laila (there) is pronounced like the “ei” or “i” sound in Hawaiian among most native speakers. Again, no symbols exist to represent these nuanced sounds. The other option, the better option in my opinion is to use the original orthography of the Hawaiian language. That means, not okina or kahako. That’s how my kupuna wrote and I have made a conscious decision to follow them. If you want to learn good, proper pronunciation, you must LISTEN to native speakers. No amount of reading with or without the okina and kahako will get you there. Let’s remember that Hawaiian is an oral tradition, the spoken word must be prioritized. Music - John Keawe https://johnkeawe.com/recordings.html Represent Olelo Kupuna - Check out the store https://www.kaalala.com/store If you enjoyed this video and are interested in learning to speak Hawaiian or are familiar with the language and would like to attain fluency, follow the link below to our online language courses and e-books. Subscribe and stay tuned for more videos. Beginner & Intermediate Online Courses https://www.kaalala.com/full-course Learn 1 on 1 https://ka-alala.mykajabi.com/services Free Online Options https://www.kaalala.com/learning-reso... #hawaiian #hawaii #hawaiianlanguage #olelohawaii #languagelearning #language #olelohawaii #learnhawaiian #polynesia #polynesian #moana #oahu #writtenlanguage