Show HAWAIIANS HAVE SHORT ALPHABET Only 12 Letters In Lan Lan- Language Language guage Musical Tongue Attracts HONOLULU AUST Aug Au 28 23 Jy D The The Tho Associated ted If Press Press It Ita- Ita HawaII Ha Hawaii wall continued to attract tourists and charm them with Its lan lan- language language lan guage dictionaries In BO 80 years will contain some words now virtually unknown A A prominent writer recently vis- vis vis visited the Islands and took back a anew anew new new word for the title of one of his articles articles The Tho glossary says the word means menns to gain ones one's favor by false flattery A 1 common Amer Amer- AmerIcan Amerlean American ican lean synonym Is kidding The T rh word like Ilko all Hawaiian words la I easy to pronounce simply pro pro- pronounce pro pronounce every syllable and vow vows I with Ith the accent on the tho next to the thc tart last c i t EASILY E LEARNED The for for a person who would be a in the 0 or a griffin in Shan Shan- Shan hal hat hal Is a or newcomer In I Hawaii also Hawaii also learns that laU pau pronounced pow Is Is a It way ot of saying he ho is finished finished done or ended with what ho how 13 doing and that Is an on extremely ex- ex expressive cx word for trouble lIe He usually also alao learns that by and by Is a good designation for the time some unpleasant task tak will be bo done i CHANGE WORDS The H Hawaiians had no language until the comin coming of tie missionaries In 1820 when the al alphabet was provided to make malc poso pos pos- pos possible sible elble translation of ot the Bible Dible It t contains only 12 letters lettera letters a c e t I io 0 u h kI k k- I m n p and is w The Thelast Thelast Thelast last Is sometimes pronounced v The Hawaiians Improvised many foreign words with their limited alphabet such as po po 10 for cat This last HawaIIan word Is said to have resulted from the he native error effort t to repeat whal c the missionaries said lId of the small smail animal poor 1 pussy It might also be noted that the nearest the HawaIIans could como come to the com com- common common common mon name Jim was their pres pres- present ent c t translation of the name mo Kl 1 11 1 mo pronounced mo kee-mo With ith the accent on the first syllable syllabic On 00 |