The Hilo language is one of the most eminent languages and is native Hawaiian with a slight differentiation that sets it apart. It is a Polynesian member of the Austronesian language and is named after the largest island of the present day state of the United State of America and is thus called Hawaiian. The area is where it all began from on the archipelago and has continued till date.

The spoken Olelo dates back to ancient times and it was given a script in the days of the James Cook who visited the island of Hawaii as a searcher and discoverer. He took the language back home with him and instantaneously established a connection between this and the language of the Tahitians. The King Kamehameha III, who was an eminent ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii established the first Hawaiian-language constitutions in the years 1839 and 1840.

There are many theories on the origins of the language but the strongest support is for the fact that it came here with the migrants of the Marquees who first established their dwellings in the Hawaiian Islands and grew from then onwards. There is a clear distinction that sets this apart from other languages and although there is a striking resemblance between the languages of Indonesians, Philippines, Polynesians still Hawaiian has its own place.

The culture of Hilo through the language of Hawaiian is best experienced in the native folk songs of the people which is usually the background of the famous Hula Dance that is common all over the Hawaiian islands.