MILILANI, Hawaii (AP) -- When Hawaii comedian Andy Bumatai was searching for a new way to attract the attention of audiences on the Internet, his wife suggested he find inspiration in something from ...

Pidgin, spoken in Hawaii for decades, is now listed as one of the official languages in the islands. The list was released by the U.S. Census Bureau in November after a five-year survey was conducted ...

“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a ...

Producer Dmae Roberts shares an audio postcard of some Hawaiians who are proud to speak pidgin -- a home-grown version of English with words and phrases borrowed from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, ...

It's not often that a broadcast interview by a diplomat wows listeners, but a recent conversation involving the American ambassador to Nigeria, James F. Entwistle, is causing a buzz – and winning ...

The dynamics of pidgin and creole languages reflect the processes by which contact varieties emerge, evolve and stabilise into fully-fledged linguistic systems. Pidgins originate in situations of ...