Jason Momoa prepared for his role in “Chief of War” with a personal language coach who lived with him for nearly a year. The Apple TV series premiered in August.
Hawaiian is far from the least spoken language in the world I feel, there’s many languages that are spoken in very sparse areas or by very small populations
For example, Ainu (アイヌ イタㇰ) in Japan is almost dead, with no first-language speakers and very few second language speakers, and Wymysorys (Wymysiöeryś) is only spoken by elderly people in the village of Wiliamowice, Poland
And those are only a few examples, there are a lot of languages that are barely hanging on like this
I’m not saying Hawaiian isn’t endangered, it’s listed as Critically Endangered, but it’s one in an, unfortunately large, list of critically endangered languages
Hawaiian is far from the least spoken language in the world I feel, there’s many languages that are spoken in very sparse areas or by very small populations
For example, Ainu (アイヌ イタㇰ) in Japan is almost dead, with no first-language speakers and very few second language speakers, and Wymysorys (Wymysiöeryś) is only spoken by elderly people in the village of Wiliamowice, Poland
And those are only a few examples, there are a lot of languages that are barely hanging on like this
I’m not saying Hawaiian isn’t endangered, it’s listed as Critically Endangered, but it’s one in an, unfortunately large, list of critically endangered languages