We got 26 letters in our nation language alphabets, same with English. From the letter A to Z we could combine them to form million kind of words and exactly easy to us to understand the words with lot of pronounsations. However, do you know that 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). I wonder how there define and differentiate a particular thing with another by using that just a bit letter only. It's so amazing!. So maybe, we can learn the language easily and i'm sure i can master to write in Hawaiian Alphabet not more than 3 years!! (flamboyant phase) =p Here I've found some Hawaiian words. Let we learn together..
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