Introduction to the Hawaiian Language (An English-Hawaiian Vocabulary): Comprising Five Thousand of the Commonest and Most Useful English Words and Their Equivalents, in Modern Hawaiian Speech, Correctly Pronounced, with a Complementary Hawaiian-English vocabulary.

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Published by Tongg Publishing Company (1945), Honolulu, 1945

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Second edition. Twelvemo (3 3/4 x 6 inches). 314 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with printed paper cover label. Front panel of dust jacket laid in. A very good copy.Compiled by Henry P. Judd, Mary Kawena Pukui & John F. G. Stokes. Mary Kawena Pukui is rightly regarded as a central figure in the Hawaiian language revival movement of the 20th century. She, a native Hawaiian, was a driven scholar and spent much of her life in documenting and preserving Hawaiian language, folklore, proverbs, place names, and colloquial speech. Aside from her contributions to dictionaries like this one, she published numerous books and articles concerning the Hawaiian language & culture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to the Hawaiian Language (An English-Hawaiian Vocabulary): Comprising Five Thousand of the Commonest and Most Useful English Words and Their Equivalents, in Modern Hawaiian Speech, Correctly Pronounced, with a Complementary Hawaiian-English vocabulary.
• Publisher: Tongg Publishing Company (1945), Honolulu
• Publication Date: 1945