Larry Kimura
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Larry Lindsey Kimura (born June 29, 1946)[https://www.officialusa.com/names/Larry-Kimura/ Larry Lindsey Kimura (OfficialUSA.com Records)] is a Hawaiian linguist. He is a professor of the Hawaiian language and Hawaiian studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in the Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani, College of Hawaiian Language.
Biography
Larry was born in Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii, U.S.A., between his Nisei father Hisao Kimura, who had immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, and his Hawaiian mother, Elizabeth Lindsey, who had been brought up in a predominantly Hawaiian-speaking family.[https://www.thehawaiiherald.com/2015/07/27/larry-kimura-best-of-both-worlds/ Larry Kimura – Best Of Both Worlds (The Hawaii Herald, 2015)]
Kimura has been an advocate for the revival of the once-prestigious Hawaiian language from its near-endangered state, he was a co-founder of ʻAha Pūnana Leo.{{cite web|title=Larry Kimura, Hawaiian language: Internationally renowned "grandfather" of Hawaiian language revitalization|date=9 October 2014 |url=https://hilo.hawaii.edu/keaohou/2014/10/09/kimura-hawaiian-language/|accessdate=31 May 2018}}[https://www.ahapunanaleo.org/our-team Our Board of Directors (Aha Pūnana Leo)]
=Naming of space entities=
Astronomers consulted with Kimura to create Hawaiian names for notable stellar objects discovered or imaged from Hawaii.
He was part of the first committee naming the observed interstellar asteroid, ʻOumuamua.{{explain|date=December 2024}}
==Pōwehi (M87*)==
In April 2019, astronomers operating the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (part of the Event Horizon Telescope array), such as Doug Simons, approached Kimura to give a Hawaiian name to the recently imaged black hole M87* in the galaxy Messier 87, in recognition of the fact that the telescope was on Mauna Kea. Kimura came up with the name "Pōwehi", from pō 'darkness' or 'night' and wehi 'darkness' or 'adornment'{{Cite web|url=http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?e=q-11000-00---off-0hdict--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10-ED--4--textpukuielbert%2ctextmamaka%2ctextandrew%2ctextparker%2ctextpeplace%2ctextclark%2ctextchd%2ctexthllt-----0-1l--11-en-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-p%c5%8dwehi--00-4-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&d=D136132|title = Hawaiian Dictionaries}} to suggest "the adorned fathomless dark creation" or "embellished dark source of unending creation", found in the intensified form pōwehiwehi in the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation chant recorded in the 18th century.{{cite web|title= Powehi: black hole gets a name meaning 'the adorned fathomless dark creation'|website=TheGuardian.com|date=12 April 2019|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/12/powehi-black-hole-gets-a-name-meaning-the-adorned-fathomless-dark-creation|accessdate=12 April 2019}}{{cite web |url= https://www.eaobservatory.org/jcmt/2019/04/powehi/ |title= JCMT Plays Critical Role in Producing World's First Image of a Black Hole – Pōwehi |date=April 10, 2019 |author= East Asian Observatory}}
(Pōwehiwehi means 'darkness streaked with glimmers of light', a generating agent of a stage in the development of life on earth as it advances toward the light, from pō 'darkness' and wehiwehi 'dappled shade'.)Martha Beckwith (1972) The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant, p. 61
The governor of Hawaii declared 10 April 2019 to be "Pōwehi Day".{{Cite web |date=April 10, 2019 |title=Proclamation |url=https://www.eaobservatory.org/jcmt/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/EHT-Proclamation-Po%CC%84wehi-Day-.pdf |access-date=September 11, 2022}} Unlike {{okina}}Oumuamua, however, the name Pōwehi has not been submitted to the IAU, as the IAU has no provision for accepting names for galaxies or black holes.Seth Borenstein, [https://apnews.com/35fadaad34ae4a15819bc9dca304ae37 Picture was clear, but black hole's name a little fuzzy], AP News, 12 April 2019
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External links
- [https://oiwi.tv/oiwitv/he-kekele-hawai%CA%BBi-mai-na-kupuna-mai-introducing-dr-larry-kimura/ ʻŌiwi TV]
- [http://www.ahapunanaleo.org/ ʻAha Pūnana Leo: Language Nest]
- [http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/academics/hawn/ Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language] of the [http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/ University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo]
- [http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg104.html Native Hawaiian Education Act]
- [http://nationalsciencefoundation.tumblr.com/post/174404200533/the-grandfather-of-the-hawaiian-language NSF]
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