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This category contains articles with Hawaiian-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages.
Pepeke ʻAike He is the name for the simple equative sentence "A is a(n) B". The pattern is "He B (ʻo) A." ʻO marks the third person singular pronoun ia (which means "he/she/it") and all proper nouns. He kaikamahine ʻo Mary. Mary is a girl. He kaikamahine ʻo ia. She is a girl. He Hawaiʻi kēlā kaikamahine. That girl is (a) Hawaiian.
Orthography refers to the correct spelling of a language. [1] The Hawaiian language uses two features in its orthography that are not found in English: the kahakō (macron) and the ʻokina (glottal stop). Kahakō is the Hawaiian term for the macron, a short line added above a vowel letter to indicate that it represents a long vowel:
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The current official Hawaiian alphabet consists of 13 letters: five vowels (A a, E e, I i, O o, and U u) and eight consonants (H h, K k, L l, M m, N n, P p, W w, and ʻ). [2] Alphabetic order differs from the normal Latin order in that the vowels come first, then the consonants.
Hawaiian (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) [7] is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hawaiian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hawaiian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.