The language codes have been collected from the HTML source of the Google Preferences page, so you can find them from there also. At the moment (June 2012) there are 149 web interface language codes and 46 search language codes. Hawaii's is quite distinct, but that doesn't mean somebody from the mainland talks "normal" or whatever.This article contains a list of the Google web interface language codes (hl=) and the search language codes (lr=) that can be inserted to the URL (web address) in the address bar of the web browser when using a Google service in case you are having problems with your language settings with Google. I've been in Hawaii for long enough that I've actually changed my tag question over to the Hawaii one.Īlso, can you tell that we have a distinctive accent when speaking "proper"?Įveryone has an accent. I'm from Maryland originally, and we have the tag question right, as in:
It doesn't sound "foreign" to me, just quite different from mainland North American Englishes. This is a brief article they've written up on Pidgin and Hawaiian English. It's pretty clear there's some heavy influence from Pidgin (people will ask if you're pau ('finished') even in Hawaiian English, the vowel space of Hawaiian English is significantly different than mainland Englishes, etc.), but there's also quite a bit of stuff unique to Hawaiian English (people from Kalihi talk different than people from Kaneohe, etc.) which hasn't been well studied. We actually have a whole bunch of sociolinguistics people here looking at Hawaiian English (the English dialect spoken in Hawaii). I'm a linguistics PhD student at UH Manoa and have lived in Hawaii for quite some time. Have any of you ever been to Hawaii? If so, what do you think about our unique language? Does it sound foreign to you? I find it very fascinating, especially after having real life language barriers because of it.
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