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University teaching of Hawaiian has played a foundational role in the continually expanding revitalization of Hawaiian. Yet, it was over half a century before any university program regularly produced speakers proficient enough to raise their children in Hawaiian. What is now the UH Hilo Hawaiian Language College has had a particularly high level of success in this regard. The College is at the core of what is now a full educational system from an infant-toddler program to the doctorate. The College has developed a perspective on language and language learning that focuses on language-based identity expressed in honua. Honua are a sequence of places where use of an endangered language is dominant and language-based identity is expressed. While Hawaiian language classrooms might seem like the most obvious honua for Hawaiian, Hawaiian language honua in Hilo include courses in English, Japanese and Latin, as well as purposeful integration of Hawaiʻi Creole English into educational experiences. Multilingualism and its active promotion, but in a particular Hawaiian language-based approach, as practised in Hilo, will be explored in terms of intersections and collaborations as a key to the future of languages and cultures in the tertiary sector and beyond. |
