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Is There a CD with The Hawaiian Alphabet Song on It?

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Rhonda wrote to me looking for help with the Hawaiian Alphabet Song…

Good Morning Lisa

I have been looking for the Hawaiian Alphabet song and I have searched the internet for it. Are you able to tell me where I can purchase it or the name of the singer or a name of a CD it might be on.

Any information you can provide would greatly be appreciated.

Thank you

Rhonda Schmidt

My friend, Stephanie Baxter, helped with part of the answer to this one:

As I understand it, the song was written by Mary Kawena Pukui, who was quite a famous teacher here in Hawaii, responsible for getting much of the Hawaiian language down in writing, transcribing a lot of the folklore. The song might be available through the Bishop Museum, where she donated a lot of her time. I’ve not heard it sung, but if were anywhere, it would be Kamehameha Schools… only students there have to be native Hawaiian.

The lyrics are:

E nâ hoa kamali`i,
E a`o mai kâkou
I pa`ana`au ka pîâpâ.

`Â, `ê, `î, `ô, `û,
Hê, kê, lâ, mû, nû.
`O pî me wê nâ panina
O ka pîâpâ.

In English…

O fellow children,
Let us learn together
Til we’ve memorized the alphabet.

A, e, i , o, u,
H, k, l, m, n.
P and w are the last two
Of the alphabet

Thanks for the help Stephanie!

Rhonda – I would contact the Bishop Museum Store and ask them if any of their cd’s have the song on it. Otherwise, I’d contact the school to see if they sell cd’s.

If anyone else knows of any cd’s with this song on it – or where you can find/buy the mp3, please let us know in the comments below.

Thanks in advance!

Mama Lisa

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Please Send An Endearing Term for Grandma and Grandpa in Your Language

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Kathy wrote me…

Dear Mamalisa,

I was delighted to find your website and will be using it in the future. I am researching translations for the word “grandma” in various languages. I am most interested in the familiar, sweet terms children might call this individual. I am aware that in some cultures this would be a different word for the mother or the father’s side of the family. I have spent hours on Internet, through many websites as well as your website and links. I have thus found: Cajun, Hawaiian, Ukrainian, Italian, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Farsi. I am not clear about Russian or Greek since I am not completely sure of their letters. Now I am certainly not expecting you to do hours of research for my project. But I thought you might be familiar with an easier way for me to accomplish my task.

For example, I happened on a page called “I Love You” in Various Languages and found 18 pages for “I love you”. Wow! Anyway, whatever help you can give me would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Kathy

If anyone knows any endearing terms for “grandma” and “grandpa”, including any in those languages listed, please comment below.

Thanks!

Lisa

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