Tags: Ethnic Group.
People of Filipino descent make up a large and growing part of the State of Hawaii’s population. In 2000 they were the third largest ethnic group and represented 22.8% of the population but more recent data indicates they have become the largest ethnicity in Hawaii (25.1% in 2010).Filipinos and Hawaiian languages are distantly related to each other being in the Malayo-Polynesian group of Austronesian languages and peoples.
