HISB94H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Foreign Mission School, Hawaiian Language
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He tongan form in the table is part of the word /ho o-fulu/ ("ten"). The hawaiian cognate is part of the word /ana-hulu/ ("ten days"); however, the more common word for "10" used in counting and quantifying is / umi/, a different root. This is because the forms for each number are cognates, except the hawaiian and tongan words for the number "1", which are cognate with each other, but not with tagalog and pan. When the full set of 200 meanings is used, the percentages will be much lower. For example, elbert found hawaiian and tongan to have 49% (98 200) shared cognacy. [26] this points out the importance of data-set size for this method, where less data leads to cruder results, while more data leads to better results. Application of the comparative method will show partly different genetic relationships. This method will recognize sound change #1 as a shared innovation of hawaiian and tongan.
