{"id":32769,"date":"2015-03-17T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32769"},"modified":"2021-09-24T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T00:47:27","slug":"national-pbs-documentary-features-uhs-efforts-to-perpetuate-hawaiian-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/17\/national-pbs-documentary-features-uhs-efforts-to-perpetuate-hawaiian-language\/","title":{"rendered":"National <abbr title=\"Public Broadcasting Station\">PBS<\/abbr> documentary features <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s efforts to perpetuate Hawaiian language"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_32778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32778\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/uh-hilo-language-matters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/uh-hilo-language-matters.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/uh-hilo-language-matters-260x112.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pele Harman, center, is a teacher at Ke Kula <span aria-label=\"O Nawahiokalaniopuu\">&#699;O N&#257;wah&#299;okalani&#699;&#333;pu&#699;u<\/span>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s Hawaiian language immersion school for elementary and high school students. (courtesy of <abbr>PBS<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobholman.com\/\">Bob Holma<\/a>n travels across the globe to uncover answers to a question scholars have asked for many years&#8212;What does it take to save a language? His travels include a stop in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> to feature ongoing efforts to perpetuate the native language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagemattersfilm.com\/\"><em>Language Matters<\/em><\/a> with Bob Holman makes its <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> broadcast premiere Thursday, March 19, 8 p.m. on <abbr>PBS<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. Filmed around the world, the two-hour documentary features <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in the third of three acts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> participants<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arlene W. Eaton, a kupuna who grew up speaking only Hawaiian<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pele Harman<\/strong>, a teacher at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;ved=0CB8QFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nawahi.org%2F&#038;ei=U6wIVZjaNIHzoASTw4L4BQ&#038;usg=AFQjCNGE6Up8vufAGoREeP1lVEEBcejtow&#038;bvm=bv.88528373,d.cGU\">Ke Kula <span aria-label=\"O Nawahiokalaniopuu\">&#699;O N&#257;wah&#299;okalani&#699;&#333;pu&#699;u<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kauanoe Kaman&#257;<\/strong>, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olelo.hawaii.edu\/\">Ka Haka <span aria-label=\"Ula O Keelikolani \">&#699;Ula O Ke&#699;elik&#333;lani<\/span> College of Hawaiian Language<\/a> associate professor and director of Ke Kula <span aria-label=\"O Nawahiokalaniopuu\">&#699;O N&#257;wah&#299;okalani&#699;&#333;pu&#699;u<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Larry Kimura<\/strong>, Ka Haka <span aria-label=\"Ula O Keelikolani \">&#699;Ula O Ke&#699;elik&#333;lani<\/span> College of Hawaiian Language associate professor<\/li>\n<li>Kepa Maly, executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanaichc.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Lanai\">L\u0101na&#699;i<\/span> Culture and Heritage Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li>W.S. Merwin, former American poet laureate  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Lolena Nicholas<\/strong>, Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language instructor <\/li>\n<li><strong>Puakea Nogelmeier<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language professor<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Kealii\">Keali&#699;i<\/span> Reichel, kumu hula and a celebrated singer and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Sai-Dudoit, works at the Hawaiian Language Newspaper Archive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagemattersfilm.com\/participants\/hawaii\/\">show website<\/a> for more on each participant.<\/p>\n<h2>Other global stops<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In Australia, Holman visits Charlie Mangulda, an Aboriginal songman (poet), who is the only person left on the planet who speaks Amurdak. With linguist Nick Evans, Holman also flies to Goulburn Island off the coast of Northern Australia, where he meets a community of 400 people speaking 10 languages, many endangered, all vulnerable.<\/li>\n<li>In Wales, Holman explores the humor, rage and lyricism of the Welsh people, who brought their language back from the edge of extinction. Currently, three million people live in Wales and speak the native language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagemattersfilm.com\/\"><abbr>PBS<\/abbr> show website<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2015\/03\/17\/national-pbs-documentary-features-uh-hilo\/\"><em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em>Adapted from a <abbr>PBS<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> news release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language Matters documentary hosted by Bob Holman features language revitalization efforts in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33,551,316,411,214,14,9],"class_list":["post-32769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiinuiakea-school-of-hawaiian-knowledge","tag-ka-haka-ula-o-keelikolani","tag-kawaihuelani-center-for-hawaiian-language","tag-language","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32769"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148647,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769\/revisions\/148647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}