Pronunciation Guide or How to Say Hawaiian words

The Hawaiian consonants are h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. They are pronounced the same way in English as they were in Hawaiian. In Hawaii, every word or syllable ends in a vowel. Hawaiians words have many vowels.

Here are examples of how Hawaiian vowels are pronounced:

a

like a in was

e

like e in bet

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e

like a in baby:

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i

like e in he

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o

like o in go

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u

like oo in moon

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