s many as several thousand Hawaiian kama'aina (locals), including many with Native Hawaiian ancestry, may live scattered in the New York area, but are united by various cultural groups including Halawai or local hula or luau events, as well as Hawaiian language classes, run by teacher Kainoa Embernate at the Endangered Language Alliance and elsewhere for several years. A major annual event has been a Central Park picnic drawing as many as 300 people. Many kama'aina have knowledge of Pidgin, also known as Hawaiian Creole English, while a smaller, but perhaps growing number have knowledge and background in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian), an Austronesian language which is in the process of a remarkable revival, the effects of which are spreading to the Hawaiian diaspora as well.