Hawaiian
Hawaiian is one of the oldest living languages in the world. Since year 1778, people who can able to speak fluent Hawaiian decrease year by year. For now only about 1% of people living in Hawaii speaks Hawaiian. Before year 1778, Hawaiian is just an oral language, but after the missionaries came to Hawaii, they convert the Hawaiian language into a written language, and then taught the Hawaiians to read the written language in order to spread the Bible. But in year 1898 after the incorporation of the United States, Hawaiian was officially banned in schools and government. English become their official language. But started at year 1978, the local people realize Hawaiian starts to diminish. The government …show more content…
The people using Hawaiian as their social communication already decrease since year 1778 until now only 1000 of people using Hawaiian as their mother tongue and only around 8000 people able to understand it. However, the number of people using Japanese is increasing year by year. Based on the calculating at year 2016, it is already 130 million of people using Japanese as their social communication. It is not only because of the entertainment, anime know well around the world and also Japanese at the ancient times already using the slimily structure until now. Although in between the year, Japanese had influences by other language, such as Chinese and English, but the structure of the Japanese did not have big different but just adding in more branches of the Japanese. Second, the structure of both languages is totally different. Hawaiian only has twelve letters in the alphabet of Hawaiian - five vowels and seven consonants and Japanese got five vowels and nine consonants plus a variety of pronunciation is not commonly which doesn’t even add up to 100. Last, Hawaiian got their special terms Okina and kahako, which are punctuation that can change the pronunciation of the word. But in Japanese, punctuation are not used while