414 pp. September 2003
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-2803-5, $23.99
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-2786-1, $47.00
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Mamaka Kaiao: A Modern Hawaiian Vocabulary
ed. by Kömike Hua`ölelo
With support from Hale Kuamo`o and `Aha Pünana Leo
"Essential. For academic, public, and school libraries that support Hawaiian studies, and for libraries supporting indigenous languages, especially from the Pacific Rim and Polynesia." --Choice, May 2004 "Necessary to any serious student of the Hawaiian language" --Honolulu Advertiser, 25 January 2004 "This publication is significant because it extends the lexicon but more importantly, it provides the contemporary speaker with the essential tool with which to describe her/his world through the medium of Hawaiian." -- Tïmoti Käretu, chairman, Te Kohanga Reo National Trust "If you need the correct Hawaiian word for a scientific concept like plate tectonics (ku`ina una honua) or an everyday necessity like cappuccino (kapukino), this is your book!" --Hawaii Island Journal, 15 April 2004
Mämaka Kaiao adds to the 1998 edition more than 1,000 new and contemporary words that are essential to the continuation and growth of ka `ölelo Hawai`i--the Hawaiian language.
Kömike Hua`ölelo was established in 1987 to create words for concepts and material culture unknown in traditional Hawai`i.
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