Hawaiian alphabet Hawaiian alphabet The Hawaiian alphabet (in ) is an alphabet used to write Hawaiian. It was adapted from the English alphabet in the early 19th century by American missionaries to print a bible in the Hawaiian language. In 1778, British explorer James Cook made the first reported Europe voyage to Hawaii. In his report, he wrote the name of the islands as "Owhyhee" or "Owhyee". In 1822, a writing system based on one similar to the new "New Zealand Grammar" was developed and printed by American Protestant missionary Elisha Loomis. The original alphabet included five vowels and twelve consonants: and
Thai alphabet the vowels เ, แ, โ, ใ and ไ before the consonants they follow, and thus Thai, Lao, and Tai Viet are the only Brahmic scripts in Unicode that use visual order instead of logical order. Thai characters can be typed using the Kedmanee layout and the Pattachote layout. Thai alphabet The Thai alphabet (; ; ) is the abugida ("alphasyllabary") used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many spoken in Thailand. It has 44 consonant symbols (, "phayanchana"), 15 vowel symbols (, "sara") that combine with 28 vowel symbols and four tone diacritics (, "wannayuk" or "wannayut") to create characters