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Originally Posted by wodin
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. |
Lots of languages use glottal stops. The easiest way to get one for an English speaker is to say the word "bookkeeper" - the glottal stop is the catching of the breath between the two "k"s.