| Language name: | HAWAIIAN |
| UPSID number: | 2424 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, Austronesian, East Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Polynesian. |
| This language has | 13 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.656148729 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p k ? m "n h "l w i E a "o u |
| Comment: | Hawaian is spoken in Hawai, USA. |
| Source(s): | Pukui, M.K. and Elbert, S.H. 1965. Hawaiian-English Dictionary, 6th ed. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. Pukui, M.K. and Elbert, S.H. 1979. Hawaiian Grammar. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. Schutz, A.J. 1981. A reanalysis of the Hawaiian vowel system. Oceanic Linguistics 20/1: 1-43. |