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This article provides information on primitive Hawaiian language, folklore and music. The Hawaiian language has seven consonants: h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. It has five vowels: a, e, i, o, and u. The mark called an 'okina (') is also important. So is the kahako, the line over certain vowels. Hawaiian music and poetry were almost the same thing. The music grew from the poems. Hawaiian poems were chanted. In chanting, the voice does not go up and down a lot. It stays mostly on two or three tones. Hawaiians told stories about the world around them. They told stories about people by saying how they were like things in nature. Sometimes they said a person was like a bird or like the wind. Poems showed Hawaiians' love of nature and how much they knew about it. |
