page_title: Christmas in Hawaii
section_title: Mele Kalikimaka
hierarchical_section_title: Christmas in Hawaii / Mele Kalikimaka
caption_attribution_description: "Mele Kalikimaka"はハワイ語で"Merry Christmas"。
context_page_description: Christmas in Hawaii is a major annual celebration, as in most of the Western world.
context_section_description: The phrase "Mele Kalikimaka" can be translated from Hawaiian to mean "Merry Christmas". It is also a Hawaiian themed Christmas song composed by Robert Alex Anderson in 1949. The phrase is borrowed directly from English, but, since Hawaiian has a different phonological system (in particular, Hawaiian does not possess the /r/ or /s/ of English, nor does it have the phonotactic constraints to allow consonants at the end of a syllable), "Merry Christmas" becomes "Mele Kalikimaka".
  There is also a more modern take on this song, called "Melekalikimaka" by rock band The Beach Boys from the compilation album Ultimate Christmas.
caption: Mele Kalikimaka
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