It’s part of the Austronesian language family. Ilocano is spoken by 54,005 people or 16.5% of Hawaiʻi’s population. With ...

Ethnic Japanese joined the melting pot, and European and Austronesian languages resulted in a Creole English called Bonin English that’s still spoken today on the islands by old-timers.

The latest salvo in the debate over the “Out of Taiwan” hypothesis came last month from a mainland academic who said the origins of the Austronesian peoples were in the mainland’s southeast ...