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This category contains 24 sites:

• Brown Hawaii Club: Our Language - Pidgin words used in context and translated into English.
• Charlene Sato Memorial Fund - Scholarship fund for students doing work on any aspect -- linguistic, social, educational, artistic or political -- of Hawai'i Creole English.
• Da Hawai`i Pidgin Bible - Excerpts from a recent translation of the New Testament into Pidgin with a grammar and vocabulary lists.
• Da Kine Hawaiian Kalikimaka - Pidgin version of "The Night Before Christmas"
• Full On Pidgin! - Phrase translations with .wav sound files for pronunciation. Also offers nursery rhymes, e-postcards and a personalized pidgin story generator.
• Genesis of Hawai`i Creole English in the Early 20th Century - Dissertation proposal to examine the historical development of three components of Hawai`i Creole English grammar: the copula, the syntactic means of indicating tense, mood and aspect of verbs, and use of the preposition "for" to embed verb phra
• Hawaii Creole English Education - Site designed to educate native and non-native speakers of Hawaii Creole English or Pidgin about the language through use of a questionnaire.
• Hawai`i Creole English - General description of Hawai`i Creole English including examples of vocabulary, grammar and phonology.
• HCE Grammar and Examples - Grammatical features of Hawai`i Creole English. Includes many example sentences written both in the Pidgin and English spelling systems followed by a standard English translation.
• Language and Culture of Hawai'i - Article on culture and language in Hawai`i with Pidgin and `Olelo Hawai`i vocabulary lists.
• Language Samples from Pidgin Speakers - Phrases in Pidgin and English from speakers who come from the Phillipines or whose first language is Japanese.
• Linguistics 204 Handouts - Lecture handouts with notes on structural differences between Hawai`i Creole English and standard english.
• Native Speaker's Perspective on Hawaiian Pidgin - Native speaker's perspective on the origin and nature of Pidgin. Includes example phrases.
• Origin of Hawaiian Pidgin - Article on the origin of Pidgin including an example translation of "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe". English equivalents of the Pidgin vocabulary are listed.
• Our Fadda Who Stay Inside Da Sky - The Lord's Prayer in Pidgin.
• Oxford Companion on Hawaii Pidgin English - The entry for Hawaiian Pidgin with references to other Pidgin-related articles
• Pidgin 101 - Expressions in Hawaiian Pidgin and English.
• Pidgin and Education - Position paper on Pidgin and education by "Da Pidgin Coup" at the University of Hawai`i.
• Pidgin Should Not Be Treated as if It Was Beneath English - News article on political and educational issues surrounding the role of Pidgin in teaching and learning.
• Pidgin to da Max - Hawai`i Kine Talk - Humorous guide to Pidgin written by locals for locals and curious visitors.
• Pidgin Words and Phrases - Pidgin words and phrases with definitions and explanations of how to use them.
• Professahs Say No Let Pidgin Boddah You in School - Honolulu Star-Bulletin article on the role of Pidgin in education including a history of the formation of "Da Pidgin Coup".
• Talk Local Style - Common Pidgin words defined and grouped by category.
• TMA System of Hawai`i Creole English - Abstract for a thesis aimed at producing a synchronic description of the tense-mood-aspect system of contemporary Hawai`i Creole English.

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