Editing Hawaiian language (section)

==Family and origin==
Hawaiian is a Polynesian member of the [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian language family]].<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Lyovin|1997|pp=257–258}}</ref> It is closely related to other [[Polynesian languages]], such as [[Samoan language|Samoan]], [[Marquesan language|Marquesan]], [[Tahitian language|Tahitian]], [[Māori language|Māori]], [[Rapa Nui language|Rapa Nui]] (the language of [[Easter Island]]) and [[Tongan language|Tongan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Polynesian languages|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Polynesian-languages|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>

According to Schütz (1994), the [[Culture of the Marquesas Islands|Marquesans]] colonized the archipelago in roughly 300&nbsp;CE<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Schütz|1994|pp=334–336; 338 ''20n''}}</ref> followed by later waves of immigration from the [[Society Islands]] and [[Samoa]]-[[Tonga]]. Their languages, over time, became the Hawaiian language within the Hawaiian Islands.<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Elbert|Pukui|1979|pp=35–36}}</ref> Kimura and Wilson (1983) also state: <blockquote>Linguists agree that Hawaiian is closely related to Eastern Polynesian, with a particularly strong link in the Southern Marquesas, and a secondary link in Tahiti, which may be explained by voyaging between the Hawaiian and Society Islands.<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Kimura|Wilson|1983|p=185}}</ref></blockquote>

=== Mutual intelligibility ===
Jack H. Ward (1962) conducted a study using basic words and short utterances to determine the level of comprehension between different Polynesian languages. The mutual intelligibility of Hawaiian was found to be 41.2% with Marquesan, 37.5% with Tahitian, 25.5% with Samoan and 6.4% with Tongan.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schütz|first=Albert J.|title=Hawaiian Language Past, Present, and Future|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2020|isbn=978-0824869830|location=United States|pages=31}}</ref>