Hawaiian

@article{ParkerJones2017Hawaiian,  title={Hawaiian},  author={ʻŌiwi Parker Jones},  journal={Journal of the International Phonetic Association},  year={2017},  volume={48},  pages={103 - 115},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:232350292}}
Hawaiian belongs to the Eastern Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family and is indigenous to the islands of Hawaiʻi (see Pawley 1966, Marck 2000, Wilson 2012). Hawaiian is also an endangered language. Not only was the native population decimated after contact with foreigners and foreign diseases but the language itself came under attack after the occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 (for more on Hawaiian history, see Coffman 2009, Sai 2011). Children were thereafter banned… 

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