Home > Faculty Publications > 4171 Keywords Spanish, loanword, loanblend, creole language, Hawai'i, O'ahu Abstract Hawai'i Creole English (HCE) has been the object of much linguistic research. Virtually all researchers agree that its principal lexical sources include English, Hawaiian and Japanese. Other languages, such as Chinese and Portuguese, have also contributed. To date, however, few publications have considered Spanish as an important lexical source for HCE.