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The Garden Isle The United States Census Bureau defines Kaua?i as Census Tracts 401 through 409 of Kaua?i County, Hawai?i, which is all of the county except for the islands of Ka?ula, Lehua, and Ni?ihau. The 2000 census population of Kaua?i (the island) was 58,303.[2] There is no known meaning behind the name of Kaua?i. Native Hawaiian tradition indicates the name's origin in the legend of Hawai?iloa — the Polynesian navigator attributed with discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. The story relates how he named the island of Kaua?i after a favorite son; therefore a possible translation of Kaua?i is "place around the neck", meaning how a father would carry a favorite child. Another possible translation is "food season."[3] Kaua?i was known for its distinct dialect of the Hawaiian language before it went extinct there. Whereas the standard language today is based on the dialect of Hawai?i island, the Kaua?i dialect was known for pronouncing /k/ as /t/. (In fact, Kaua?i retained the old pan-Polynesian /t/, while Hawai?i has innovated and changed it.) Therefore, the native name for Kaua?i was Taua?i, and the major settlement of Kapa?a would have been called Tapa?a.
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