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Direct linkHo'omanawanui, Ku'ualoha – American Indian Quarterly, 2004
Until American Calvinist missionaries created a Hawaiian alphabet and writing system after their arrival to the Hawaiian islands in 1819, all Kanaka Maoli literature was oral. By inventing a Hawaiian alphabet, the missionaries were able to teach Kanaka Maoli reading and writing; by the early 1830s the first missionary-controlled printing press was…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Printing, Alphabets, Diachronic Linguistics
