One of my long term goals is to learn the Hawaiian language. I know a number of words and I studied the pronunciation years ago, so I’m not terrible with pronunciation.
Hawaiʻ i is not the same as Hawa’i or Hawaii.
As I start writing more Hawaiian words (including Hawaiʻ i), I want them to be correct. The ʻ , or ʻokina, is not an apostrophe, displayed as ‘. I won’t go into the details of the language here, but know there is a difference. Just as WordPress has a capital p and is not written Wordpress, Hawaiʻ i is not the same as Hawaii or Hawai’i.
Below is a chart of the letters in case you need to use them on your own site.
| Letters | Hex Code | Entity |
| ʻ (ʻOkina) | ʻ | |
| Ā | Ā | Ā |
| ā | ā | ā |
| Ē | Ē | Ē |
| ē | ē | ē |
| Ī | Ī | Ī |
| ī | ī | ī |
| Ō | Ō | Ō |
| ō | ō | ō |
| Ū | Ū | Ū |
| ū | ū | ū |
Leave a Reply