Nineteen islands and atolls extending across a distance of 2,400 km (1,500 mi) comprise the Hawaiian Archipelago. Hawai‘i Aloha is the unofficial state song, often sung in official state events. The state song is Hawai‘i pono‘i, written by King Kalвkaua and composed by Henri Berger. Hawaiian Pidgin is an unofficial language. The official languages are Hawaiian and Hawaiian English. The constitution declares the state motto to be Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, a pronouncement of King Kamehameha III meaning, "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness." It was also the motto of the kingdom, republic and territory. The primary symbol is the state flag, Ka Hae Hawai‘i, influenced by the Union Jack and features eight horizontal stripes representing the eight major Hawaiian Islands. Included are the two statues representing Hawai‘i in the United States Capitol. These include a state bird, state fish, state flower, state gem, state mammal and state tree. The state constitution and various other measures of the Hawai‘i State Legislature established official symbols meant to embody the distinctive culture and heritage of Hawai‘i.
Hawaii is also the namesake and backdrop of a popular 1959 novel by James Michener and its 1966 movie adaptation. Ecologically and agriculturally, it is the endangered species capital of the world and is the only industrial producer of coffee and chocolate in the United States. Ethnically, it is the only state that has a majority group that is non-white (and one of only three in which non-Hispanic whites do not form a majority) and has the largest percentage of Asian Americans. As one of two states outside the contiguous United States (the other being Alaska), it is the only one without territory on the mainland of any continent and is the only state that continues to grow due to active lava flows, most notably from Kоlauea. In addition to possessing the southernmost point in the United States, it is the only state that lies completely in the tropics. This state most recently admitted into the Union has many distinctions. Honolulu is the largest city and the state capital. Census it had a population of 1,211,537 people. Hawaii constitutes the 50th state of the United States. © 1995-2022 University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Ka Haka Ula ʻO Keʻelikōlani Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani.Hawaii (Hawaiian / Hawaiian English: Hawai‘i, with the ‘okina) is the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Most contemporary web browsers support Unicode, however, browsers on older versions of the Mac and Windows operating systems may not display the language Hawaiian properly.
This code lets the browser know that the page contains UTF-8 content. In order to use these characters and have the ‘okina and kahakō show properly, you also need to add the following line in the HTML header of every document:
However, the correct character is the one that is shown above. It should be noted that the ‘okina appears in several locations in the Unicode spec. It also displays the escape sequences that can be used to display the ‘okina and kahako if you have Hale Kuamo‘o's HI Fonts, as well as the character values for these within the Mac and Windows font sets. The table below shows the correct Unicode values for the ‘okina and vowel-macron (kahakō) combinations, as well as the HTML escape sequences used to represent these characters. At this time, it is the only technology that we employ in order to properly display the Hawaiian language on the World Wide Web and in most other computer programs. Hale Kuamo‘o began experimenting with Unicode on Kualono back in 1998, however, support for the Unicode technology in web browsers was not as strong back then. Hawaiian Cultural Center at Kamehameha Schools.Search Ulukau, The Hawaiian Digital Library.Hawaiian Knowledge and Knowledge Information.Kahuawaiola Indigenous Teacher Education Program.Kualono Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani Dictionary search: Searchįlag of the State of Hawaii E ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi