HawaiianHawaiian,
which is an Austronesian language, has about 1,000 mother tongue speakers, 500 with Ni'ihau Island connections, another 500 in their 70's or 80's. 8,000 can speak and understand it . 234,700 ethnic Hawaiians in
Hawaii, and 100.000 on the USA Mainland. Hawaiians include 8,000 pure Hawaiians and 81,000 at least half Hawaiian in Hawaii (1987 Honolulu Star Bulletin).
In 1778 there are believed to have been more than 500,000 pure Hawaiians.
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