LEOKI: A POWERFUL VOICE OF HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION

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Political and linguistic repression over a period of one hundred years nearly brought the death of the Hawaiian language. In the last thirty years though, a Hawaiian renaissance movement has helped revitalize the Hawaiian language. Hawaiian language activists and scholars are taking advantage of every possible tool to promote their language, including computers and the Internet. This article discusses the role of computing and online communications in Hawaiian language revitalization, focusing on the Leoki bulletin board system, the first BBS in the world fully based on an indigenous language.

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