About Hawaiian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The Hawaiian language is the official language of Hawaii. It happens to be one of the oldest languages in the world. This language has an important history but was about to extinct at the end of the 20th century. However, the renaissance of Hawaiian happened and more people are interested in learning it. Currently, this language is used in many schools and even for attaining a master’s degree. Only 0.1% of people in Hawaii are speaking this language as their mother tongue. The major thing about Hawaiian is that there are about four basic rules in it. Nearly all the words end in a vowel and every consonant ends with at least one vowel. Even every syllable ends with a vowel itself. The Hawaiian alphabets contain 113 letters and five vowels. ‘Okina’ is also considered a consonant. Here is the following example that shows kai = sea kaʻi = to lead.
About Malay Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Malay is the official language of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is also spoken unofficially in many parts of Thailand. You will be surprised to know that the native speakers of this language exceed 290 million. There are around 260 million people in Indonesia alone who speak Malay. Standard Malay has many different names. It is also known as Court Malay. Speakers find it easy to distinguish this language from others. Malay is written in the Latin script but Arabic script is also a huge part of it. However, this Latin script is more common among people of Malaysia and Brunei. Since the 17th century, this language is inspired by Dutch and Britain. Jawi script was also replaced by Rumi script that is now officially used for many purposes. Malay features many non-native consonants that are borrowed from English and Arabic words.
