Hawaiian alphabet
Latin alphabet of the Hawaiian language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Hawaiian alphabet (in Hawaiian: ka pīʻāpā Hawaiʻi) is an alphabet used to write Hawaiian. It was adapted from the English alphabet in the early 19th century by American missionaries to print a bible in the Hawaiian language.
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Hawaiian alphabet | |
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Script type | Alphabet
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Creator | American Protestant missionaries |
Time period | 1822–present |
Direction | Left-to-right |
Languages | Hawaiian language |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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