Hawaiian Braille
| Hawaiian Braille |
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alphabet
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| Languages | Hawaiian |
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Parent systems
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Braille
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Print basis
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Hawaiian alphabet |
Hawaiian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Hawaiian language. It is a subset of the basic braille alphabet,
supplemented by an additional letter ⠸ to mark long vowels:
(Māori Braille uses the same convention for long vowels.)
Unlike print Hawaiian, which has a special letter ʻokina for the glottal stop, Hawaiian Braille uses the apostrophe ⠄, which behaves as punctuation rather than as a consonant:
That is, the order to write ʻĀ is apostrophe, cap sign, length sign, A.
Punctuation is as in English Braille.
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