Alternate Names: Hawai’i Pidgin Sign Language, Hawaiian Sign Language, HPS
Dialects: None known. Not related to American Sign Language , or any other known sign language, less than 20% probable cognates with ASL (2013 J. Woodward).
Genealogy:
Language Use: Largely replaced by American Sign Language [ase], starting about 1950. A few users from about 6,000 profoundly deaf people in Hawaii (1987 Honolulu Star-Bulletin), 72,000 deaf or hard-of-hearing people in Hawaii (1998 Honolulu Advertiser). Elderly only. Also use American Sign Language [ase], English [eng].
Typology: SOV, noun-first in noun phrase, verb precedes negative, sentence-final question words.
Nation of Origin: United States