I've added a few much-needed resources to the Hawaiian page. The Kulaiwi link is a great resource, especially for a language like Hawaiian that has so few learning resources available. This site has 30 hour-long videos on learning Hawaiian, with pdf transcripts of the first few episodes and even a workbook. All this is available for free.
The state of the Hawaiian language appears quite good. From near-death only a few decades ago, a campaign of rebuilding confidence in the language is really taking root. The effort should be a model for other endangered languages. They have been focusing on teaching children in bilingual and even full immersion settings and it is working wonderfully. The children have really taken the Hawaiian language as their own and it's the parents and adults who are trying to keep up! That bodes well for the future of Hawaiian.
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