Its interesting that the Hawaiian Alphabet has only 13 letters,
These are a,e,h,i,k,l,m,n,o,p,u,w and okine, thats a symbol.
It has f ive vowels (long and short) and eight consonants.
The Alphabet represents the sounds that were linguistically intelligible to the white people
who wanted to print the Christian Bible in the in the Hawaiian language
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