| Hawaiian Braille
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| Script type | alphabet |
Print basis | Hawaiian alphabet |
| Languages | Hawaiian |
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Hawaiian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Hawaiian language. It is a subset of the basic braille alphabet,
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| a | e | h | i | k | l | m | n | o | p | u | w |
supplemented by an additional letter ⠸ to mark long vowels:
(Māori Braille uses the same convention for long vowels.)[1]
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 ʻĀisapostrophe, cap sign, length sign, A.
Punctuation is as in English Braille.
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Braille ⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑
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