Category talk:Languages of Hawaii
Latest comment: 10 years ago by ElisaVan
The following information passed a request for deletion.
This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.
Not a sovereign country. Currently the only US state with its own category since Category:Languages of New Mexico failed RFDO. -- Liliana • 08:45, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. —Internoob 19:36, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Why should sovereignty matter, if a state or province speaks a different language from the rest of a country? Perhaps in some places where it makes sense to do this. We're not necessarily only concerned with official languages. That said, is Hawaiian a major language there anymore? ~ Robin 09:22, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hawaii is a special case among the states. It may not be a sovereign country now, but it used to be. The sugar plantations used to ship in workers from all over the world, there was a huge influx of Southeast Asian immigrants after the war in Vietnam, and it serves as a gateway for the South Pacific and half of Asia into the United States. Languages with significant populations that I can think of just off the top of my head include Chinese, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Samoan, Tagalog, Tongan, and Vietnamese. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:11, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
- Texas was also once sovereign. Anyway, I don't see it as problematic to move everything in this category to Category:Languages of the United States of America: most of the languages you mention are also spoken by large mainland communities. - -sche (discuss) 06:26, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, note User talk:Ishwar#Cat:Languages_of_New_Mexico, which says there was consensus for Hawaii. - -sche (discuss) 06:26, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
- Kept by default for lack of further discussion --ElisaVan (talk) 18:07, 20 October 2013 (UTC)