Howzit! Welcome! Welina mai!
The Charlene Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole and Dialect Studies was established in January 2002. The Center’s aim is to conduct research on pidgin and creole languages as well as stigmatized dialects, with a focus on research that can benefit speakers of such varieties. The Sato Center welcomes local students, faculty, community members, and visiting researchers to use the resources that we have available at the Center. Previously at TP 101 (behind the Center for Korean Studies) we are now located at Moore 496.
The Sato Center was established in memory of Charlene Junko Sato, a Hawai’i-born scholar whose research on Pidgin provided much of the knowledge base about this language.
FO REEL! Da Pidgin Film Festival
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FO REEL! Da Pidgin Film Festival 2023
Contribute to a Pidgin and multilingual citizen science project
Hi-signs.net is a multilingual repository for photos of signs featuring different languages across the Hawaiian Islands. Upload anykine photos that you see in public that get Pidgin or any language from your mobile device or laptop:
