Status of Hawaiian Pidgin (i.e. Creole) English/was Quiz

[David Robertson]

LhaXayEm,

Wel, ChInuk Wawa, Shawash IlI7i ya wawa, dret?
Well, CJ is Grand Ronde's official (heritage) language, right?

Alta na hay kEmtEks John Baugh ya bUk "Beyond Ebonics:  Linguistic Pride
and Racial Prejudice" (New York:  Oxford U. Press, 2000), qha yaka munk
c'Em khakwa--
Now I'm reading John Baugh's book ... where he writes as follows--

p.64	"Under federal regulations, however, no educational provisions are
	made for speakers of nonstandard English, with one noticeable
	exception:  native Hawaiians.  Native Hawaiians were provided with
	special federal categorical funding for bidialectal education that
	acknowledges the educational constraints derived from nonstandard
	Hawaiian pidgin English (HPE).

	"In sharp contrast to the Ebonics controversy, it has been
	politically and economically feasible to consider a small
	bidialectal linguistic enrichment program in Hawaii, isolated from
	the mainland; however, there are striking historical linguistic
	parallels between the creation [sic] of HPE and the genesis of
	slavery-induced nonstandard African American English.  There are
	striking historical differences as well:  English engulfed native
	Hawaiians, whereas enslaved Africans were ingested into Southern
	American English, albeit as human chattel denied any inalienable
	rights."

p.71	"As of this writing [the] legal details remain in limbo, and we
	are likely to see them resurface again because the educational
	plight of most African American students remains bleak, and
	uninformed linguistic stereotypes about African American English
	(or Ebonics) also prevail.  The Oakland case might have turned
	out differently had Oakland built its analogy around the
	categorial program for HPE rather than Title VII [which provides
	funding for the education of students who do not speak (standard)
	English].  For example, could [Education] Secretary Riley claim
	that HPE is not English in the same manner that he scoffed at the
	concept that Ebonics is not English?  How can the federal govern-
	ment justify a worthy linguistic program to increase standard
	English among HPE speakers and not extend the same linguistic
	concerns to speakers of African American English?"

Dave


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