Help:IPA/Hawaiian

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Hawaiian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

See Hawaiian phonology for more detail on the sounds of Hawaiian.

Consonants
IPA	Examples	Nearest English equivalent
h	Honolulu	hat
j	Mauna Kea [ˈkɛjə]^[1]	yes
k	Kamehameha^[2]	sky
l	Honolulu, Lānaʻi^[3]	lean
m	Maui	moon
n	Lānaʻi	note
p	Pele	spy
t	Waikīkī, wikiwiki^[2]	steal
v	wikiwiki^[4]	vision
w	Loa [ˈlowə], Kīlauea [tiːlɐwˈwɛjə]^[4]	wall
ʔ	Hawaiʻi, Oʻahu	uh-oh! (a catch in the throat)
Stress
IPA	Example	Note
ˈ	Honolulu [honoˈlulu]	placed before the stressed syllable^[5]

Vowels
IPA	Examples	Nearest English equivalent
aː	Lānaʻi	father
ɐ	Oʻahu, Molokaʻi^[6]	nut
ə	Hawaiʻi, Mauna Loa^[6]	sofa
eː	Kēōkea	hey
ɛ	Pele^[7]	bed
e	Kahoʻolawe^[7]	Spanish seta
iː	Waikīkī	peel
i	wikiwiki	Spanish hijo
oː	ʻōʻū	more
o	Honolulu	Spanish loco
uː	ʻōʻū	moon
u	Honolulu	Spanish tuyo
Diphthongs
Short diphthongs
ju	kiu	cue
ow	kākou	mole
o̯i	poi	queen
ew	heu	Portuguese and Spanish neutro
ej	lei	May
ɐw	Mauna^[8]	cow
ɐj	Waikīkī^[8]	light
ɐo̯	haole	Spanish caos
ɐe̯	koaea	Spanish trae
Long diphthongs
oːw	ʻōuli	no way
eːj	kēia	may you
aːw	kāu	RP far west
aːj	kāia	RP far younger
aːo̯	ʻāoka	crowd
aːe̯	māea	^{[example needed]}

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