ʻOkina
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This article is about the Polynesian letter. For the character ʻ itself, see modifier letter turned comma.
Not to be confused with Apostrophe or Quotation mark.
The ʻokina (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ʔoˈkinɐ]), also called by several other names, is a consonant letter used within the Latin script to mark the phonemic glottal stop in many Polynesian languages. It does not have distinct uppercase and lowercase forms.
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ʻOkina letter forms | |
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The Hawaiian ʻokina or Tongan fakauʻa (Unicode U+02BB[1]), as it appears in the Lucida Sans font. | |
The Tahitian ʻeta or Wallisian fakamoga (currently not encoded separately), as it appears in the Lucida Sans font. | |
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Hawaiian language) within single quotes, font: Linux Libertine. The glyph of the two ʻokinas is clearly different from the glyph of the opening quote. |
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