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Hawaiian Alphabet

The Hawaiian Alphabet only contains 12 letters: a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p and w. Every word ends with a vowel. A glottal stop is also used, called an 'okina (meaning cutting, 'oki meaning cut and na meaning -ing). It used to be called an 'u'ina (meaning snap).

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I THINK YOUR ALPHABET IS VERY DIFFEREN AND KOOL.....BUT I WANT TO KNO DO YOU SPELL AND SAY CERTAIN WORDS THE BEGIN WITH LETTES OTHER THAN THE ONES YOU HAVE

MORGAN at 10:43AM, Sep 29th 2008.

Could you give some examples of words with their meanings

Sandra at 08:57AM, Nov 28th 2008.

I guess Morgan meant to know if you can pronounce letters like C, D, F, G, ... that you don't have in your language. I thought in Hawai they speak English!!

tamkat at 04:50PM, Jan 24th 2009.

Hawai'i has two official languages, Hawaiian and English. It is a branch of the Polynesian language and is very similar to the Maori and Tahitian vocabulary. And no, you do no pronounce letters such as C, D, etc. Every word ends in a vowel and no two consonants are in a row. Many words and even sentences contain only vowels, such as E i ae oe iaia (Speak thou to him there). Many words have several meaning, such as aloha (hello, goodbye, to love) and many words in English require several Hawaiian words, such as across (Mai kekahi aoao a i kekahi aoao ae).
Some place names in Hawai'i include Haleakala = house of the sun
hale - house
a - of
ka - the
la - sun
Other common words include:
mahalo = thank you
pau = to end, to be done
hula = dance
maka = eye
kapu = sacred, prohibited
wai = water
keiki = child
Some sentences :
Pahea la oukou i ike ai ia mea? = How do you know that?
And Hawaii's state motto
Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono. = The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.

mia at 06:59PM, Feb 17th 2009.

how do you spell certain words like bus ??????????

rutvi vadera at 03:47AM, Mar 2nd 2009.

Actually there are 18 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet they are a,e,i,o,u,h,k,l,m,n,p,w,'
also you have the vowels with the kahako over them they are also seperate letters of the alphabet because they change the word, like the kahako, the okina is an actual letter in the Hawaiian apiapa

Iouka Kahananui at 01:09PM, Apr 8th 2009.

Thats a bunch a ****in bullshit. Learn real history. It's not hard. Ever heard of google?

Trey Furniss at 03:38AM, Jul 17th 2009.

Thats a bunch a ****in bullshit. Learn real history. It's not hard. Ever heard of google? .

Trey Furniss at 03:39AM, Jul 17th 2009.

iouka iz right :) wow. i didnt realize your comment wuz even right tha fuk there. thank u for proving my point :)

Trey Furniss at 03:41AM, Jul 17th 2009.

give us some different words except the word listed above?????????
Is that true that there are 18 letters on the hawaiian alphabet

SLU_CHRISTIAN at 07:57PM, Aug 8th 2009.

rutvi vadera wrote: #
how do you spell certain words like bus ??????????

We have different words for "bus" in Hawaiian.

a "kaʻa ʻōhua" is a car that carries many passengers, and can be used to mean "bus."

The word "ka'a" on its own means "car."

Hawaiian at 07:41PM, Aug 26th 2009.

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