Historical and sociolinguistic background

Contact and immigration

The Hawaiian Islands were populated by Polynesians some time between 200 and 400 AD. The first Europeans to visit the islands were Captain Cook and his crew in 1778. At that time the native Hawaiian population numbered somewhere between 200,000 and a million. Contact with outsiders increased when Hawai‘i became a stopover in the fur trade between China and the west coast of North America, and then a centre for the sandalwood trade and the whaling industry. During this time the foreign population in Hawai‘i increased while the indigenous population decreased drastically because of introduced disease. In 1848 there were only approximately 88,000 Hawaiians left.

 

In 1835, the first sugarcane plantation was established, and the expanding sugar industry led to the importation of labourers from many countries. About 2,000 Chinese plantation labourers arrived from 1852 to 1876, and more than 37,000 from 1877 to 1897. The majority were speakers of dialects of Cantonese Yue and Hakka, spoken in southern China. Approximately 2,450 labourers from other Pacific islands were imported from 1877 to 1887 – most from Kiribati (then the Gilbert Islands) but at least 550 from Vanuatu (then the New Hebrides), and some from Rotuma (currently part of Fiji), New Ireland and Bougainville (parts of Papua New Guinea) and Santa Cruz (Solomon Islands).

 

More than 10,000 Portuguese workers were brought in from 1878 to 1887 and another 13,000 from 1906 to 1913. Nearly all of these were from the Madeira and Azores islands. Indentured laborers also came from continental Europe: 615 Scandinavians (mostly from Norway) in 1881 and 1,052 Germans between 1882 and 1885.

 

Steady Japanese indentured migration began in 1884, and by 1924 over 200,000 Japanese had arrived in Hawai‘i. Migration from the Philippines began in 1907, and by 1930 over 100,000 Filipinos had come to Hawai‘i. Other significant numbers of immigrants included 5,203 from Puerto Rico (1900−1901), 7,843 from Korea (1903−1905), approximately 3,000 from Russia (1906−1912) and about 2,000 from Spain (1907−1913).

الاكثر قراءة في Phonology

Minimal pairs and sets

Aspiration

Phones and allophones

Assimilations

Finding the underlying form

The Sonority Sequencing Generalization

Major class features

Feature geometry

Standard lexical sets

Bukusu: nasal+consonant combinations

Place of articulation

Allophony in other languages

Floating tones

Natural classes

Dissimilation

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اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

قسم الشؤون الفكرية يختتم المرحلة الثالثة من مشروع استعادة مكتبة جامعة الموصل

جامعة الكفيل تنظّم دورة حول نظام (كوها) العالمي لإدارة المكتبات الجامعية في النجف

مجموعة مشاتل الكفيل: إضافة نحو 70 نوعًا جديدًا من المغروسات تتناسب مع الظروف المناخية المحلية

المجمَع العلمي يطلق الدورة التطويرية الخامسة لمعلمي التربية الإسلامية ومدرسيها في النجف الأشرف

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

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هذا ما يحدث لجسمك إن أهملت نظافة فراشك

لماذا تعتبر النساء أكثر عرضة للإصابة بألزهايمر من الرجال؟

لماذا يحذر الخبراء من الإفراط في تناول الفراولة؟

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

السيارات الكهربائية أنظف بنسبة 73% من سيارات الوقود

سيارة لوسِد الكهربائية تدخل "غينيس" بأطول مدى في العالم

نظرية جديدة تنسف كل ما نعرفه عن تشكل أول قارة في الأرض

منذ 37 ألف عام.. دراسة تكشف "أقدم أمراض" أصابت البشر

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Spelling and Pronunciation SUMMARY

American English vs. British English

Morphological Basis of English Spelling

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Vowels

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Consonants

Spelling and Pronunciation Irregularity of English Spelling

Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology SUMMARY

Perception

Optimality Theory (OT)

Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM)

Markedness

Hypercontrast