Hawaiian Braille
Hawaiian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Hawaiian language. It is a subset of the basic braille alphabet,
a e h i k l m n o p u w
| Hawaiian Braille | |
|---|---|
| Script type | alphabet
|
Print basis | Hawaiian alphabet |
| Languages | Hawaiian |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
|
supplemented by an additional letter ⠸ to mark long vowels:
ā ē ī ō ū
(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:
- ⠄⠸⠁⠊⠝⠁ ʻāina
- ⠄⠠⠸⠁⠊⠝⠁ ʻĀina
That is, the order to write ʻĀ is apostrophe, cap sign, length sign, A.
Punctuation is as in English Braille.
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