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Hawaiian alphabet
The Hawaiian alphabet, called ka pī‘āpā Hawai‘i in Hawaiian, is a variety of the Latin alphabet created in the 19th century and used to write the Hawaiian language. It consists of 12 letters and a symbol, making it one of the shorter alphabets in the world (the Rotokas alphabet has one letter fewer; the Pirahã language, two fewer). Its inventory consists of the consonants /p/, /k/, /ʔ/ (glottal stop or ‘okina), /m/, /n/, /w/ (sometimes rendered as /v/), /l/, /h/, and the vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/. The macron, called a kahakō in Hawaiian, used with vowels, marks a long vowel, /aː/, /eː/, /iː/, /oː/, and /uː/. Contrary to popular belief, it does not indicate stress, though under the rules for assigning stress in Hawaiian, a syllable with a long vowel will always be stressed. Whether long or short, the pronunciation of the vowels does not change.