NATIVES SPEAK BOTH ENGLISH AND SAMOAN. SO OLD PAPER DIES.
HONOLULU. January 18. " Kuokoa," one of the most novel newspapers printed in the United States, using just twelve letters of the alphabet, will be discontinued this year. Printed in the native language of Hawaii since 1861, “ Kuokoa was with one exception the oldest general newspaper printed in these islands. For manv years it had a circulation unequalled ' by any other newspaper published in Hawaii. There are just twelve letters necessary to write the musical language of the Hawaiians, which was only a spoken language until the coming of missionaries, who put the island tongue in writing. The Hawaiians still use their native language in talking to one another, in their songs and ceremonials, but as they all learned to use English as fluently as Hawaiian, the circulation of “ Kuokoa ” dropped off.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18393, 20 February 1928, Page 5
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