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The Charlene Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole and Dialect Studies, established in January 2002 and based at the University of Hawai`i-Mānoa,, conducts research on pidgin and creole languages as well as stigmatized dialects, with a focus on research that can benefit speakers of such varieties. The website offers links to helpful resources on Hawai`i Creole English (HCE) and other creoles, and gives tips for conducting research in this area.

The Atlanticʻs Alia Wong writes about the U.S. Censusʻ recognition of Hawai`i Creole English (sometimes termed "pidgin" in local Hawai`i parlance). Wong sees it as a symbolic gesture acknowledging the "legitimacy of a tongue widely stigmatized, even among locals who dabble in it, as a crass dialect reserved for the uneducated lower classes and informal settings. It reinforces a long, grassroots effort by linguists and cultural practitioners to institutionalize and celebrate the language-to encourage educators to integrate it into their teaching, potentially elevating the achievement of Pidgin-speaking students. And it indicates that, elsewhere in the country, the speakers of comparable linguistic systems-from African American Vernacular English, or ebonics, to Chicano English-may even see similar changes one day, too."

"Many refer to Hawai'i as the melting pot of cultures, and along with that comes a wide range of languages. A recent U.S. census survey looked at languages spoken here in the islands and for the first time Hawaiian Pidgin English was included on that list." Ugh, bad reporting: surely the US Census Bureau meant Hawai`i Creole English (HCE)? But still, interesting that it's receiving federal validation as a bona fide language...

This article documents Cornell linguistics professor Joseph Grimes' collaboration with 26 HCE speakers to translate The Bible into Hawai`i Creole English (HCE). Grimes' 12 year project culminated in a 2001 "pidgin" (really HCE) version of the New Testament.