If you came to this website and are reading this, most likely you find interest in the language
known by locals in Hawaiʻi as Pidgin. Letʻs be very clear about Pidgin, it is a language, not
broken English as some people tend to call it.
Check out this website
that linguists, the folks that study language, use as a resource for describing the world’s languages.
You will find that Pidgin is also known as Hawaiʻi Creole and has a local and even a literary tradition.
Listen to the way John Cruz jams,
Aunty Marialani teaches you how to
cook, or check out how local authors such as Darrell Lum, Eric Chock, Lee Tonouchi, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka
write.
What you will find is a language that is very much tied to the local Hawaiʻi identity.