Hawaiian is, in many ways, a simple language, in the sense that it uses very few consonants. However, it makes a good use of diphthongs / more complex vowel-blending, which we tried to capture some examples of. It also uses the glottal stop '' quite a bit, and long vowels.
There is not much in terms of written Hawaiian content or word lists, Wikipedia is even pretty bare. But it is a nice sounding language with some interesting and useful features, so we included what little we could.
Here are the 10 fundamental consonants used when speaking Hawaiian.
For a complete list of possible consonants a human voice might make while speaking a natural language, check out the consonants page.
| bilabial | labiodental | dental | alveolar | postalveolar | retroflex | velar | uvular | pharyngeal | glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voiced nasal | |||||||||||
| quiet plosive | |||||||||||
| quiet non-sibilant fricative | |||||||||||
| voiced non-sibilant fricative | |||||||||||
| voiced tap | |||||||||||
| voiced lateral approximant |
These are the 10 base vowels used when speaking Hawaiian.
Also, a complete list of possible vowels a human voice might make while speaking can be found here.
| manner | front unrounded | front rounded | front central unrounded | front central rounded | central unrounded | central rounded | back central unrounded | back central rounded | back unrounded | back rounded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| close | |||||||||||
| close-mid | |||||||||||
| mid | |||||||||||
| open-mid | |||||||||||
| near-open | |||||||||||
| open |