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wodin · 12-23-2010, 01:03 PM

Are native Hawaiians "American Indians"? They are indigenous people of a US State, and the Hawaiian language has its own alphabet. It even has a letter that was not borrowed from the English. The “`”, also called the glottal stop or ʻOkina, is pronounced as a catching of the breath; usually as a consonant between two vowels, forcing each vowel to be pronounce independently.

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wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	Are native Hawaiians "American Indians"? They are indigenous people of a US State, and the Hawaiian language has its own alphabet. It even has a letter that was not borrowed from the English. The “`”, also called the glottal stop or ʻOkina, is pronounced as a catching of the breath; usually as a consonant between two vowels, forcing each vowel to be pronounce independently.