Duolingo app adds Hawaiin language in its update

ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi which is a Hawaiin language,will now available as a course from one of the largest language-learning android apps Duolingo.

Duolingo on yesterday launched a Hawaiian language course developed with the help of Kamehameha Schools, a Hawaii-based private school system . Updates to Duolingo s mobile app that would include the lessons are currently under review by Apple and Google, according to a company spokesperson, and are expected to be released later this month.

Kamehameha school system said that“Bringing ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi to this platform builds on the tradition of our ancestors in the nineteenth century who embraced the new technology of print to pass on our traditions, literature and history."