Aloha kakou.
Tomorrow Sunday a presentation is being given up at the UH Manoa language conference center in Honolulu on Hawaiian sign language:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc/2013/
According to records the first concrete written reference of Hawaiian sign language was a letter scribed by Hiram Bingham to Thomas Hopkins in 1821. This finding on the distinction between Hawaiian sign language and its counterpart over in the U.S. is generating considerable excitement among linguistic researchers who plan to make available three Hawaiian sign language textbooks and a dictionary in due course:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hawaii-sign-language-found-distinct-language-18630311
There currently exist just forty residents island-wide utilizing Hawaiian sign language for interactive communication, a sign of the times. Onipa'a.
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