Mele Kalikimaka
December 7, 2009 by Da Small Coconut
Filed under Culture, History
Mele Kalikimaka is a transliteration of Merry Christmas. The Hawaiian language has 13 sounds and 13 alphabets. We won’t go into the process of analyzing how “Merry Christmas” got to “Mele Kalikimaka” but as a simple example the Hawaiian language does not have the letter “R” so “L” is its subtitute and the “li” becomes [...]