Ke kamaʻilio mākou i nā ʻōlelo o ka wā e hiki mai ana, hoʻāla mākou i ka ʻōlelo Kina, kekahi manawa Lūkia, Paniolo kekahi. ʻAno pinepine ʻole ka ʻōlelo ʻAlapia, poina kahi ʻōlelo i poina pinepine ʻia. ʻAʻole anei ia he mea hoʻokūkū koʻikoʻi no ka inoa? ʻO ia kekahi o nā ʻōlelo ʻelima i haʻi ʻia ma ka honua. 'Languagelelo o kaʻepekema, nā hana, ka nohona a me ka hoʻomana, He hopena koʻikoʻi ko ʻAlapia i nā moʻomeheu o ka honua. ʻO ka makahiki ma hope o ka makahiki, kūpaʻa i kāna kuʻuna, hoʻomau ka ʻōlelo ʻAlapia i ka huakaʻi, e hoʻonui iā ia iho a e hoihoi. Ma waena o ʻArabia maoli, kana lehulehu ʻano ʻōlelo ¶ ke keiki 'ōlelo Hawaiʻi ʻike ʻia i waena o nā mea āpau, pehea e wehewehe ai i ke kumu o kēia ʻōlelo elusive? Hoʻokomo ʻo Babbel iā ʻoe ma ke ala!
Aia ma hea ka ʻōlelo ʻAlapia i ka honua?
ʻO ʻAlapia ka ʻōlelo kūhelu o 24 mau ʻāina a me kekahi o nā ʻōlelo kūhelu ʻeono o ka United Nations. ʻO kēia nā mokuʻāina 6 o ka Hui Lūkini, a ʻo Eritrea a me Chad. Aia ka hapalua o kēia mau mokuʻāina ʻōlelo ʻAlapia ma ʻApelika (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, ʻAigupita, Eritrea, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan, Chad a me Tunisia). Aia ka hapalua ʻē aʻe ma Asia (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanona, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Syria a me Yemen).
ʻAlapia, Tureke, Peresia ... e mālama waiwai! ʻO ka hapa nui o nā mea ʻōlelo ʻAlapia ...
